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So I decided to do a half-assed Inktober thing, with a theme of elemental beasts and powers. It'll be a varied bunch, but expect a lot of dragons. That means 31 pictures, one a day, using some sort of ink. My art tool of choice is the humble biro, notably a shitty black pen with a rubber grip I got from Lidl, €1.20 for a pack of 5. As added challenge, I'm not allowed to use pencil, because that's not ink. Water - October 1st Fire - October 2nd Earth - October 3rd Air Ice Stone Light Shadow Stasis Time Life Death Energy Space Harmony Chaos Creation Electricity Magnetism Gravity Plasma Sonics Vacuum Metal Psionics Fear Hunger Hatred Love Poison Nature Okay these aren't all really elemental powers, but they're the sort of thing you can imagine someone using in a fantasy world. A bunch of them are Bionicle-based as well.

I'm curious as to why you say this. Even in the games that do it relatively well, such as Overwatch, I'd still only call the practice mostly harmless. It doesn't add anything of value to any game it's in. Even when discussing server costs for multiplayer games, if games without lootboxes can get by just selling skins directly, I fail to see why these other games can't. At it's worst, it's downright predatory. At least in the days of hiding on-disc content behind dlc packs, you knew what you're getting yourself into. You pay an upfront fee for a specific amount of content. A lootbox system is never added because it adds something to the game; it's added because some suits looked at the mobile market and said "you know, I bet we could get some of that."

Aabicus introduces us to this one weird civilian everyone seems to really like. I also did some tidying up, fixing up the FAQ page and the ToC page (that I kinda copied off one of my other websites that I run).

This one is worse for showing you how the algorithms work but better for pretending that you are receiving coded messages from your alien overlords:

Fallout 1 is free on Steam. Not as good as 2 and needs the FIXT patch to work, but its still pretty good.