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    What are you currently playing?

    I got back into Fear & Hunger after delving into its lore a bit. My opinion of this game has lowered drastically once I started to think about the design of this game. In short, this game has two completely conflicting core design principles: Deliberate obtuseness, lack of tutorialization and...
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    What are you currently playing?

    In other games, I played through Arkham Knight. Story aside, this is easily the most mechanically refined of the games, if a bit bloated. The escalation of things is mostly handled pretty well: the fear takedowns being recharged by executing a successful silent takedown is a surprisingly good...
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    What are you currently playing?

    As someone who got into TWWH 2 this year as well (and then had to uninstall it due to how addictive it was) here's some pointers: Manage your finances. Don't blow it all on armies, focus on building up a strong one with your main lord first. Settlements don't cost any gold to upkeep, only...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Nail on the head on this one. Easily the most engaging addition to the stealth has been the guys who can track your use of detective vision. It places a timer on it and forces you to take in enemy placements and memorize stuff more. In theory anyway. Mostly it just means that guy is the one you...
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    What are you currently playing?

    I've been working my way through Arkham Knight for the first time, and last night I had a sobering reminder of why I once played Arkham City for like 12 hours straight. Rocksteady are just wizards with their pacing and making the simple act of traversal so fun that I just fall into a trance and...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

    Killers of the Flower Moon, 8/10 This is Martin Scorsese's latest about a string of murders in the wealthy native Osage county in the 1920s. It's basically a crime-conspiracy drama seen through the eyes of the conspirators: Leonardo DiCaprio plays a man, who I'd say is too stupid to have a...
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    The Escapist Oldheads discord backup plan

    Joined. Glad to see this club keep going. It'll be jolly interesting to potentially be able to hear people's voices after all these years.
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    The Escapist Countdown to Shutdown Thread: What’s Next?

    You're a good egg, Casual Shinji. Despite never meeting (and likely stay that way), I've always felt a respect and kinship for you, at least as much as one can from forum posts. You're a thoughtful, kind and considerate person, and I'd be glad to call you a friend.
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    The Escapist Countdown to Shutdown Thread: What’s Next?

    And since we're posting "end credits" songs for this forum, I'll do my part: Especially this part: "For everything that could have been Well at least we took the ride There's no relief in bitterness Might as well let it die" Here's to hoping we'll meet again on Second Wind, whatever that...
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    The Escapist Countdown to Shutdown Thread: What’s Next?

    Basically meaning my entire post history from V1 is gone, since there's no way to access those posts from my account, only by browsing the 14,000+ pages of threads on the V1 archive. Bummer. Though admittedly, it's not like I was browsing that history anyway to reminisce about the old times, but...
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    The Escapist Countdown to Shutdown Thread: What’s Next?

    So uh, is there any kind of way to draw all of my post history to some sort of doc that can be stored offline? I have literally 1,5 decades of messages on this forum and its predecessor. It's the closest thing I've ever had to a diary or a journal. Would be a shame to lose it all.
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

    Which is why I used the word "understanding" instead of "empathy". It's not that people just want to treat Rambo like shit by default, but they simply don't know what kind of man they're dealing with. The colonel does.
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

    First Blood (1982), 10/10 I had only seen this movie once ages ago, and I'm not even sure I saw it all the way through back then. So going back to it it turned out to be perhaps the best movie I've seen all year. It's a really brisk watch, but absolutely action packed, expertly paced and full...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

    I've seen the movie but it's been years, and I saw a brief moment of it a couple years back on TV. It really is a tough movie to watch. The moment that most stayed with me was when the forced laborers are building the barracks in the camp, and one of them warns that the foundations are unstable...
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    Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

    Cursed (2005), 3/10 I had another bad movie double bill night with friends, and this is the first one we watched. It's a forgotten werewolf movie starring Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg with your typical werewolf plot: people get bitten, body and identity changes, humans are the real...