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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.

45 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

The God of War ones, actually.

BOY

35 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I hold my own with most at the FLGS.  It was when I started playing against the tourney players that things changed -- I managed a victory against in the league against a member of Columbia's XTC (X-Wing Team Championship) team.

The captain of my team was the current Canadian Champion and co-lead of Canada's XTC team (2022 winners, 2023 runners up).  We agreed strategically to have me be the sacrificial lamb --- I was assigned the worst faction in the meta (and one I had never played before) , and he pitted me against their best player/faction combo.  It sucked in terms of self-confidence, but I also dramatically improved my game.

I remember a really distinct wall when I played Imperial Assault and Destiny competitively at regional tournaments between people who played on TTS and people who didn't. I was one of the latter and could usually hang until I ran into the former. I went to a Destiny launch event for one wave or another and as I was getting worked over was being told I was playing combos sub optimally; I was playing the cards for the first time, they'd had them from leaks / previews online for a couple months and I just got bounced.

21 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I'm trying to play a couple of in-person casual games a week of X-Wing.

I joined an online league last year, that had lots of tourney regulars.  Apparently, if you play a tabletop game daily for close to 10 years, you get good at it.  I lost.  A lot.

Getting online in the 90's was how I realized I was trash at games compared to a lot of people.

Going to FLGSs in the 20XX's was how I realized I was trash at tabletop games compared to a lot of people.

I haven't played this or Armada in ages. There was an "anything goes" gig at Pax U that I meant to check out but ended up flaking on.

3 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

Ugh, I don’t want to buy an XBox and I don’t necessarily game on my PC anymore so I’m going to have to break somewhere.

What would Indy do? Steal what he needed.

Always gonna be funny to me that a Catholic character is gonna have "Born Again" in his show title @Commissar SFLUFAN 

$15K Lions

Tampa FG

Goff

Over

Lions

Ravens, Packers, Chiefs

23 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said:

I had COVID in my house and didn't get it. 

On 1/16/2024 at 6:54 AM, Spork3245 said:

That boss is definitely a PITA

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.

Cool looking Indy game? Executive producer Todd Howard?

45 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

So the issue is you can't between getting him a Ferrari or a Lamborghini?

@Mr.Vic20 knows that the 5090 will be large enough that it could be driven on pubic roads once wheels are strapped to it.

TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY

On 1/12/2024 at 12:28 PM, silentbob said:

What happens to your swimmers when you keep such a device so close to them all day long? Neat idea but I have some concerns. Plus, what would keep some of these non nuclear countries from buying a shit ton of these nuclear phones and using towards a weapon? 

The phone is made of lead.

I WILL ABUSE MY MOD POWERS TO SAY GAAAAAAAAAAH NO I FORGOT THIS WEEK

What a horrible night to have a DMCA strike.

9 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I'm a normal person (or am I? ) and sold a couple of things on there recently, one being my Steam deck. You just have to "ask for permission" to sell your thing and if you get the permission you can sell it.

 

With that being said, I feel like there is something even scummier going on and it's other seller's hijacking your inventory. I guess the amazon policy is that you can order something without a payment method and the order can be pending for 21 days while they try to authorize the payment. You the seller can't cancel the transaction during this authorization thing so  you just have to sit there and wait while the buyer either updates the payment or amazon cancels the order after a certain amount of time.

 

This actually happened to me, it was nearly 3 weeks and it was clear this "person" had no interest in buying the item. They would send a message asking for expedited shipping and I told them to contact amazon because it's FBA, and 2 weeks later they ask the same thing. If this person actually wanted the item with expedited shipping they would have just paid ASAP right?

Having sold maybe 100 things on ebay over the last 20+ years, my take is that most buyers are completely fine, but the ones that aren't are completely insane. Someone wanting expedited shipping but waiting weeks to pay seems completely normal.

Shit like, "I know this auction is listed as shipping to the US only, any chance you could do local pickup in Spain? Figured I'd ask."

14 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

And they're blue-checks.

For sites like google and amazon, them getting shitty was like driving a car every day; I didn't notice the brakes getting gradually worse. Then one day I went to use them for something slightly outside my regular beat and they were just... fucking terrible. Etsy is like that too now. I have some accounts that I know are real people who make cool board game shit, anything that's out of a specific niche I know well? I have zero ability to detect whether or not it's a real seller or someone hocking aliexpress shit on etsy with huge markups. It sucks.

Twitter has been much more abrupt, at least for me as someone who has essentially zero followers and uses it like something resembling an RSS feed. Over the course of a few weeks / months the ads got dramatically worse (it's mainly dropship scam bots) and if I look at the threads of anyone with a moderate following who doesn't have a robust blocklist, the replies are all bluecheck bullshit. Not that a website that was basically "commentsection.com" was ever GREAT; bullshit designed to farm engagement would float to the top from time to time. But replies to legitimate news accounts rarely had shitposter78986926 dropping racist dogwhistles as the top comment, let alone MOST of the top comments, which happens all the time now.

Imagine starting a thread about the Senate taking something seriously and then having a picture of Marco Rubio in the OP.

The extent to which the biggest sites on the web have become just absolute fucking dogshit is wild to see.

SKYRIM BELONGS TO DA NORDS

2 hours ago, TheLeon said:

I look forward to checking this out in 10 years when I have a PC that can run it properly. 

In 10 years we'll just be getting dump truck slider mods for ES6, well played.

Polar Seltzer > all others 

Every year they don’t have the limited edition cranberry cider in the fall, I die just a little bit.