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  1. Posted

    I had a dream about an ancient family of hunters, so ancient that their language was made up and added to by writing out the new word in the blood of a fresh kill. Apparently that ritual gave it magical powers. Fast forward millenia to present-ish time me and some other guy were basically using it to have a wizards' argument with it, complete with words causing things to explode.

     

    That dream also featured me having to carry around the (assumedly somehow a pureblooded?) baby of the old clan of hunters in New York so the tone was all over the damn place

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    43 minutes ago, Raison d'être said:

    Went to the dentist for the first time in 10 years or so because I've had a toothache the past few weeks. Turns out I need two root canals, a crown, and one wisdom tooth extraction.

    I've lapsed for a few years and I'm hoping the random aches I sometimes get will go away with positive thinking

     

    I need to actually just go while I've got free dental insurance tho

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    At this point lucky star is old anime comparatively so plenty of "weebs" don't know it beyond stupid twitter memes that post the OP. It's kind of an interesting bridge piece of slice of life shows that would later be all over the damn place in the late 2000s/early 2010s and earlier mid-2000s comedy shows which tended to feature really bright designs and were full of references to other stuff and absurd fourth wall breaking segments.

     

    Comparatively K-On is sort of the archetypical slice of life show with bits of comedy, bits of characters interacting, bits of heartwarming stuff. The thing that defines it is just the overall quality throughout which usually tapers off with a lot of shows cut from its cloth. To that end if you've seen examples of the genre it may not be as interesting as if it was the first one of its kind you watched, but I think k-on's timing was super important to its popularity

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    I've been really trying to thin out my backlog and I'm kind of stumped right now. Just finished Mass Effect 2 and I don't want to go straight to ME3, but none of the others are really jumping at me. It doesn't help that I've picked through a lot of my bread-and-butter genre games, and now there's weird stuff like Va-11 Hall-A which is great so far but not really a game I'm always down to sit down and play, or stuff like VR games which require a bit of setup and room arrangement

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    I finished my first VN route without a translation today! It was a very simple slice of life romcom VN that I'm sure about twelve people on earth really remember but it's still a victory in my book.

     

    At times I really wondered if I was taking in the stuff I was reading, and how much I was just glancing past, but at the same time, that's almost exactly how I read english, so... I wasn't overtly confused by much so I think I can consider this a win for me. Now if only I could manage to put together a coherent sentence in japanese, I'd be able to maybe pass an elementary school test

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    38 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    Most widespread conspiracy theories are psy-ops intended to sidetrack the curious and provide an easy outlet for mocking those who would question the official narrative.

     

    (This is what Gyokuyoutama really believes.)

    I'd only argue that several of them are hijacked by psy-ops to be spun more towards absurdity rather than initially starting as psy-ops. Not all, but a good enough number

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    1 hour ago, TheOnlyGuyEver said:

    My monitor is failing...my mouse is dying...my processor is going...and today the right side of my headphone audio has gone shot. The world is crumbling around me...

     

    I mean I have a spare pair in the closet but I don't want to use them on this laptop out of superstitious fear that they will become cursed. I ordered a new laptop for Christmas and it's arriving January 1st. So as long as the roof over my head holds until then I should be fine.

    Hey, my second monitor's messing up too, got a nasty dark spot on it. It flickers back to full strength now and then, but since it's just the secondary monitor I've not bothered replacing it. Though if it completely goes out it'll be a pain.

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    I haven't played like anything this year, how sad

     

    • Mass Effect 1: Pretty fun game, though it's painfully dated with some of its mechanics and UI. The good parts shine through from the various "console RPG"-isms and honestly the base combat isn't terrible though it is fairly clunky. I would totally get being blown away by this when it came out, though I'd probably say that there were better RPGs from that era (like Oblivion though I haven't played that in ages so that's going off of old impressions). I'm working through ME2 and it feels worse than ME1 considerably but I can't fully review it given that I'm not even halfway through yet
    • Dishonored 2: It's hard to say anything about this that doesn't apply to dishonored 1. The plot is almost a formality and the game only really comes alive when you're dropped in an area with a knife and a murder-boner. It's been expanded and there's more varying enemy types, better support for various playstyles (like a canon "no-powers" run!) and overall has more stuff in it. Most of the stuff added in is actually good, though some of it is bad, like the time travel level. Overall a good game but as a sequel it doesn't really move past the original - but given that I wanted more Dishonored I can't complain much. 
    • Noita: This is a weird game. I originally kept an eye on it just because it was a particle game like ye olde powder simulators, but it has a very deep wand system and (quite frankly, stupidly) extensive exploration game to it. The game is full of bullshit but you can pull plenty of bullshit yourself, so it's got a weird equilibrium of antagonizing the player and the player constantly trying to break the game in half. It has an issue a lot of rogue games have where a run can take a loooong time to do, and end in a crushingly disappointing blunder that makes you want to just not play the game again. Honestly this is one of those games that I feel like the "intended" experience is too hard but the "modded" experience may remove too much challenge from the game. I've not found the equilibrium yet, and maybe the end take is just to get better.

    I also played Crysis 1 and 2, 1 being a fucking nightmare game that truly explained why Crysis 2 basically disowned it and was a far better game for it (still just kinda mid-tier though). I replayed Half Life Alyx with commentary on and HLA is still a fuckin baller-ass game, maybe even better the second time. Far Cry 5 was "another Far Cry." Fate/Extella Link was pretty decent and drastically improved the Extella gameplay and roster, though it felt kind of short (ton of extra stages and stuff though, so kinda on me to go back and do those).

     

    I'll probably give it to Noita since I didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but if I could I'd just give it to Half Life Alyx again since I just replayed it and remembered how fun it was.

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    1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    For a big list of names, this site put all the spells in the Wizard's Spell Compendinium into a big csv file:

     

    https://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2017/07/ad-wizards-spell-compendium-index.html

     

    That's basically the name of every single 2nd edition and BECMI wizard spell (including stuff from class books, player's option, dragon magazine, published adventures, etc.)

    Sick, that's the kind of stuff that I'm talkin about

  24. Posted

    I'm putting together a random spell table together for a thing. If you know any systems, splatbooks, even non-tabletop sources, etc that have good and/or weird spell lists, I'm trying to steal from as many sources as possible. Or if you have a specific spell worth putting into a list, that's fine too.

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