Awesome, I’m looking forward to checking out all the little details.

I’ve been meaning to get into some older total wars, but didn’t know where to start. Any tips for Rome Remastered coming from WH2?

Its pretty dead. I started it at the wrong time (around when SoC for warhammer 3 came out and interest was dying down), but its still here in case anyone wants to post about total war and I still come by every day or so to see if anythings happening. I’m hoping that CA can build up interest again, but the community may not be too lively till then. I wish I could comment on Rome, but I got into total war after it came out so I don’t have much to offer lol. Still, welcome!

Not up to that point. For instance, when you meet gale in the portal, you are given dialogue choices that can lead to different outcomes. Picking the fairly deranged option ends up with gale losing a hand while picking the normal option progresses the conversation normally. In the Alfira scene, you are given dialogue options (including the option to send Alfira away from camp) but none of them matter. They all lead to her appearing in camp the next morning, dead, no matter how illogical that is. At that point, just give me a cutscene showing Alfira arriving at camp at don’t give me any dialogue options to send her away. What’s the point of them?

I’m not talking about his backstory. I’m talking about his story within the game. Larian provides you with a choice of multiple speech options in this situation, including the option to send Alfira away. If you choose that option, the game essentially decides to ignore your choice and railroad this death into the story in a way that doesn’t make sense. Personally, I play an RPG to make choices within a story. If the game then discards those choices, why give them in the first place?

As far as I can tell the 5 isn’t offered in the US yet. Murena uses e/os (a sort of de-googled android os), so apps like gmail are not native. They say that their store pulls from the google play store though, so any apps you’ve gotten through that should be compatible.

Fairphone 4 seems to be offered in the US through a company called Murena. Looks like a solid option. https://murena.com/murena-fairphone-4-is-now-available-in-the-usa/

He is also sharing some really interesting behind the scenes tidbits, like how he did the body mocap for all of the character creation motions.

I reload a lot. If failures led to interesting outcomes more often then I’d stick with them, but they usually just lead to combat.

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Nah, I skipped the chorfs and I’m gonna skip this one, too. I don’t see the value; I can buy two of these dlcs or buy almost an entire new game. Especially when the patching has been so infrequent and ineffective. I’ll probably reconsider if the patching changes, though, and buy it on sale down the line.

Solid summary by Zerkovich. I like the look of the Tzeetch SEM, curious to see what its upkeep is and how they can afford it. None of the factions really stand out to me, though.

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Same boat here. 50 hours in and I can’t go 30 seconds without the camera bugging out, using a skill that doesn’t match the tooltip, a quest breaking, etc. Its still really cool and I believe that Larian will get it there, especially with the pace at which they are releasing fixes, but I thought that the full release would be a bit more polished. I think 6 more months in the oven would’ve been helpful, but with how long they were in EA I understand releasing it now.

A lot of cool units and the soundtrack does some great work in the trailer. Personally, I’m not going to pick this dlc up for a while since its $25 and its not even a new race, but the trailer is dope.

Madonna in '95. Just reverse image searched it. Photo is the last on the page.

https://www.vintag.es/2021/04/madonna-steven-meisel-versace.html

I’ve been playing some Noita lately. Really interesting concept of mixing and matching spells to create some wonky combos. The reality falls a bit short, though, as a lot of early combos are useless or detrimental and you have no way of knowing unless you test them out. You also don’t unlock new stuff unless you test them out. That can lead to a lot of runs being wasted, you end up playing the early game too much, and it gets a bit repetitive. Fortunately, there are mods that make it a bit less obtuse and more approachable.

After the recent performance upgrades its working great and I am finding it to be a great general replacement for my time on Reddit. All I am hoping for now is for the fediverse to become a bit more populated so that niche communities can develop and get a bit more activity.