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Other Games / Re: RimWorld - basically the sci-fi Dwarf Fortress
« on: January 21, 2024, 04:58:32 pm »

I tossed some wastepacks towards the Qu base, and they retaliated by leaving their corpses all around my leisure room. Intergalactic conquerors my ass.

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Despite everything, the tournament arc is still going.


Short one this time.

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I didn't come back just to immediately disappear, did I? The tournament continues!


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Happy New Year everybody! It's been a long time, but that's not because something bad happened or anything, but because I got too curious about Pokemon Rejuvenation and Desolation. Really got into those games, and had great fun despite their shortcomings.

Especially Rejuvenation has the problem with the plot being convoluted and incomprehensible, almost like they had no end goal in mind. While Reborn introduces its many characters gradually, Rejuvenation just throws new character at the player in handfuls throughout the entire game, and all of them stay relevant. The writer can't write to save his life, but I appreciate him.
It's a bit unpolished too, with some possible softlocks and script errors. Otherwise it's quite solid, and balanced similarly to Reborn.

Desolation, while also inspired by Reborn, has more of its own identity. That's not to say Rejuvenation is completely derivative, of course. The character poirtrats are beautiful, and they don't try to emulate Pokemon artstyle. The writing is possibly the best of the three games, able to make the player care for the characters


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Oh man, time to slam my head against the wall repeatedly!


I'm almost at the point wher I got stuck in the previous playthrough. Easy place to get softlocked in, but this time I'm prepared, or at least have a better choice of pokeymans.

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Other Games / Re: How did you last *own*?
« on: September 09, 2023, 02:28:09 am »
I know Forgitten Realms lore well enough to know what Auntie Ethel was from her name alone. I also know rhat while devils offer fair deals with harsh conditions, hags twist words to cause as much grief and suffering as possible. I had to hunt Auntie down.

I'm a drow wild magic sorcerer; breaking the illusion over the swamp was simple. The problem was that when that happened I was surrounded by redcaps. They were smart enough to target the main spellcaster - me, meaning I spent the entire fight either held by hold person, or dead. That's okay, because in my wisdom I had only prepared utiloty spells (and magic missile). Meanwhile Shadowheart was buffing and protecting the rest, Wyll was blasting with eldritch blast, and Karlach was dealing the real damage, at one point hitting a redcap with another redcap.

Then there were Auntie's masked thralls. Underwhelming, to be honest. One of them kept trying to hit Shadowheart with some spell, but couldn't get through her saving throws.

Finally there was Auntie Ethel herself. Being in her own lair gave her no advantage. Her illusory doubles were easily handled with my magic missile. Wyll and Shadowheart had good rolls on their attacks.
When the hag disguised herself as the captive woman, I had Shadowheart use that crappy divine cantrip on one of them. She hit the poor woman, leaving her with just 1 HP.
When the hag begged for her life, I obviously refused to let her live, and blastes her with my final magic missile.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Short one today. Another one full of "tell not show", but there's at least a big fight.


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Other Games / Re: RimWorld - basically the sci-fi Dwarf Fortress
« on: August 23, 2023, 04:49:02 am »
Make it do their hands.

Not exactly my call. The mod itself gives the AI prompts based on the pawn's appearance and traits. It's set to make portraits, and it makes portraits.

I've got the rest of the colony done. The last time it crashed for some reason.


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Other Games / Re: RimWorld - basically the sci-fi Dwarf Fortress
« on: August 22, 2023, 02:26:06 pm »
I started playing around with that one mod that lets the player generate a colonist portrait, and while it's not fantastic, it's a fun toy to play around with. Some came out pretty good, some pretty funny, and some downright horrifying:


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Reading this, you can probably tell at which point I had a pounding headache and was feeling pain from merely thinking about sunlight.


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This is the worst part of the game, but rich in essential information and some liguistics.


I don't even want to proof-read this one. I hope you can forgive me.

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