It's a thing you can upgrade over time, and eventually caps out at like 25, but costs the same resource as arguably the most important building, so for a long time you're going to be way below that number. I too thought i would just rotate around two or two and a half full parties, and that is in fact how it works for…

My favorite comic relief moment from this thing is still when a giant eldritch jellyfish attacked my vestal, and the game calmly informed that she had contracted syphilis. It really changed my understanding of where that tentacle was going in that move.

I did not realize this until it did one of those party configuration names for uh…vestal, plague doctor, grave robber, hellion that implied i had picked a party of all women and i took a closer look at her.

It's more like a game where victory isn't super rewarding, and retreat is expensive, and therefore metagame progress is pretty slow despite you winning individual quests a lot.

Tailoring party composition to the dungeon (and boss) definitely helps a lot, as does eventually having a surfeit of gold to allow for overprovisioning. There are a lot of runs i am confident i can do without leaving myself to the mercy of an affliction check or a death's door hit. The title dungeon though is not one…

I didn't see this when complaining about the same thing near-simultaneously. Not letting you run with overlevelled guys wouldn't be so bad if it didn't constantly overlevel you guys for the only content you're actually qualified for.

I don't think i'm ever going to bother finishing this. It works really well when the roguelite angle is there as a deterrent — a thing that stops you from pushing yourself into situations where you have a high chance of losing guys. But it's pretty boring when it makes good on the threat. There isn't actually enough…

What i'm saying is, it's set up to look kind of like he Ned is doing "The right thing", but that's only true if you really buy into this divine right of kings nonsense in the first place, and even then that still might mean he should actually be backing the dynasty the Lannisters and Baratheon ousted.

It's also not really more ethical to to make a kid who is only the king's son the next king rather than a kid who it turns out is only the queen's son. The single, gigantic benefit of primogeniture and other laws of succession are avoiding wars of succession (some of the time). Fighting a war because it turns out…

Someone watching with me asked "why did he have a bottle too?"
"I uh…for drinking?"

And he's both prescient and completely wrong. His version of the fairy tale makes no sense at all and as Mulder points out, isn't even particularly instructive or resonant as a metaphor. And then it turns out the real monster is (a) man, but there also happens to be an unrelated lizard creature around.

And it even has a punchline that makes it seem marginally less gratuitous.

I think the cell phone pitch was my favorite bit of this. "I didn't know what I was saying, and neither did she!" This is an early contender for best guest performance imo.

Technically the "were" part means "man" so he's still a were-lizard even with the transformation being backwards.

I hadn't really thought about it before now, but if you hadn't offered me any information, and just asked me to guess what Kanye West was into in bed, i almost certainly would have named much weirder things than the apparent real answer.

Most things on NPR? I also haven't heard Lore so it's possible there's something i'm missing about it.

Even as someone with no other interest in wrestling, i have to admit, this man is a national treasure.

I've seen her in some music videos and not much else. She hasn't been shoved in my face constantly, so uh, i have no problem with her. I'm not really in a position to judge other people's accomplishments, so long as i'm not required to care about them to a ridiculous degree, and i certainly haven't been in this case.

Now that Rusty is actually important, OSI wanted someone competent watching him.

That is…not great, yeah.