If you get a nice projector you can play it on the side of your neighbors house and they won't know.

What evidence has been found that links the crypto-mining wallets with the 1337X admins?

This encounter was contrasted with the player’s first encounter with Morrigan, the much-loved Dragon Age character. “It does everything right to make you like the character, before showing you her darker side,” Clark said of Morrigan's introduction in Dragon Age: Origins. “I don't think they did this with Lae'zel.” Gaider dismissed this suggestion, saying “it truly does not matter”.

That's the best part. Why would you like a character male or female that is openly hostile to you? You wouldn't. That's the point. She isn't your friend (at least towards the beginning), you simply share a common goal with this githyanki. I wouldn't be more forgiving if she was a guy. She's still being an asshole to me. But it works especially for evil playthroughs as the relationship works totally fine as something that's just transactional in nature.

You know who I couldn't forgive? Alistair. All he needed to do was shut his damn jackass mouth for 10min. Really hard for me not to see him in Gale everytime I talk to him.

I disagree with some of their assessment. Specifically the point that you really aren't given enough information to weigh out which decisions you go with and that is something problematic. Unknowns are pretty inherent with Dungeons and Dragons. In tabletop, you typically don't know what the outcome is going to be. You can only veer towards decisions you think will be a net positive and then hope you make your rolls.

With a couple of exceptions, no decision you make is really game over for you. It just changes how the story unfolds.

Before Baldur's Gate was a thing, I remember reading Homeland by RA Salvatore. It was 1994 and my sister gave it to be as a bday present. I couldn't put it down and it firmly cemented me into Dungeons & Dragons. I already had been playing some gold box games like Hillsfar, but that book got me seriously addicted.

My suggestion is to avoid any cringey back story. Seems like all characters have some edgy drama they center on. Instead, have a really boring backstory like you're a retiree who is just looking to pass the time. Something you can kinda chuckle at to break the tension with having to roleplay.

Or, if you have to have an elaborate backstory here is one I've used: your character's mind broke after whatever happened (like old age) and they believe they have made a pact granting them warlock powers. They don't have those powers and are just going batty, so just work it out with the dm where you "cast" hexblade but just do a normal attack. So you're just a fighter really but you'll be pretending you aren't with the other players.

I remember when Pathfinder Kingmaker released there was a very vocal group that said the game was too difficult and they were forced to save scum. Now everything in that game basically had a slider and you could completely customize difficulty, but that meant you were changing it to the forbidden option labeled "Easy". The pride these people had, they just couldn't do it.

The funniest part of it is that Owlcat did fix it. That group's attitude was very much "finally, it's playable. About time". However, all that Owlcat did was move those sliders for them and renamed it normal mode.

Fucking Lars. Metallica just did not get it and attacked their fans. Nobody had a problem paying for the music, they just wanted to be able to download it. They didn't want a CD they wanted an MP3.

My understanding was it's bad practice to host images on Lemmy instances anyway as it contributes to storage bloat. Instead of coming up with a one-off script solution (albeit a good effort), wouldn't it make sense to offload the scanning to a third party like imgur or catbox who would already be doing that and just link images into Lemmy? If nothing else wouldn't that limit liability on the instance admins?

Yeah, those people are so heavily invested in this game that it has to be great at all costs. I mean dropping $100 just to play a few days early and the subsequent justifications made after the fact really speak to that.

I've heard people talk about how this is the greatest game ever released. Like dude, this isn't even the greatest game released so far this year.

I'm not really familiar with Wii U emulation, but the cdecrypt github page says you can compile it on Linux. It isn't Windows only.

I use Lae'zel for my evil run, but she does have kind of that evil cat vibe. Like how every cat not only acknowledges it is a cat, but somehow feels that it is the epitome of what it means to be a cat.

Also, as I think it's pointed out, githyanki are canonically space Nazis. Early in her character arc there is definitely the notion that she is only helping you to help herself and that she has no problem with "final solutioning" you.

"Redefined" is just an industry buzzword used to describe a title that AAA publishers can't understand why it's so successful. I firmly believe they are that out of touch with their consumers.

Suggesting a non-piracy option or providing links to non-piracy options is a violation of the community rules and guidelines.

I have no issue with AI in tabletop roleplaying. Being able to create an NPC and just define its position and what it's motivations are could lead to some really organic interesting gameplay.

I totally disagree with how that articles author lumps in AI with NFTs too. AI is supplemental. It's just a tool to further expand on existing technology like search engine optimization. NFTs don't provide anything like that. They are just gimmicks.

So much replayability! I've been experimenting with different approaches to situations and just for the Grove have found 5 different solutions. One of them was only possible by me failing a skill check first.

Probably not relevant to the console players, but mods and patches always interest me.

Oh man, you brought up a really good point. There's the albums, and then there's the merch. Metallica junkies would have like 20 band shirts and so much Metallica swag all over their places. Those guys would drop thousands of dollars. They lived for that music. When Lars came out and was basically "it's about the money" so many fans stopped caring about the music. When they stopped caring about the music they stopped buying the merch.

How dare you have fun and enjoy something you purchased differently than me?! I'm appalled! Appalled, I tell you!!

I was playing around with a deurgar crossbow poisoner build for a little bit. Honestly it's not that bad, but you run into a lot of situations where what you're fighting is resistant to poison. Still, I totally agree with potions of speed. You can really turn fights around with potions.