That's a good obit. I hope I fare as well someday.

No - you're right. I also roll random characters for these games, so I'm stuck with what I get and am often useless in these conversations ;)

As I'm a masochist, who's been playing many rpgs dead-is-dead for a few years, there's still some value in talking my way out of quests and into better rewards, but yeah, those circumstances are still few and far between enough to ignore.

Agreed - it just seems the system has diminishing rewards for raising any stat (except maybe the two you mention) past 7-8.

There are also implants (cost caps) and quest related perks that
permanently change your starting stats, so unless you're going for a
specific perk, its beneficial to not max out any one starting stat as
that may waste those benefits later on.

I'll always remember driving a hotdog truck through Redwoods backlit by the first rays of dawn to Rod Stewart's Young Turks. Then I killed a hooker.

I thought it was Leftovers Amy Brenneman, but your comment still stands.

Follow your dreams. Be yourself. Buy my book.

Yay! Phillip Baker Hall is still alive and working! Yay! Tony Todd!

RIP Jake

I have tried several times with minimal success to get pals interested in Portal: UCAG, but the learning curve/design turned them off. A couple borrowed it to give it a chance, but they haven't returned. I think they threw it in an incinerator. The only element I'd like to see changed is a recessed board to make it…

Aww - great! Well don't tell him all the USS I have were burned from the vinyls Gregg Turkington sent my buddy after chatting him up at a Neil Hamburger show.

Blasphemy! But yeah…

I've been itching to get Darkest Dungeon for awhile - I think its brutally unforgiving reputation and art-style are right up my alley and it looks like GOG has it on sale. Is it as hard as the reviews suggest and is it fun to lose? Disclaimer: I have died over 700 times in Spelunkey and only won a handful of times.

Still soldiering on through my trial by fire of CCGs with Elder Scrolls Legends. Dozens and dozens of losses, but I've finally advanced far enough in the ranking this month that I had to break down and read more about the mechanics and CCG mechanics in general to make further losses more productive. I'm focused on an…

I recently put that track on a romantic mix. And now I'm engaged. That's how good it is.

Could you print that on a red hat please?

Blech

Might find some time to poke around in the original ESO which I just picked up. Not sure if I want to invest in the Morrowind update as I don't usually get very involved in online/multiplayer games, but the gf has it and want to strut my stuff as the dread Nord pirate, Ragna Black-Bilge!

Don't visit Solstheim then. Nothing but an interminable icy walk. Unless you're a wizard that can hop across it in a couple bounds. Then you damn well better hop.