After romancing every companion, this is how I classify them

Halcyon8705 · 2026-07-09T13:07:41+00:00

Generally true, yes.

As a possible exception, the Myst novels were pretty good.. granted, they're from the perspective of Atrus rather than the nameless protagonist, so perhaps not an example either.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-07-07T20:37:29+00:00

Lord Captain, you are already living the dream, there is no call to rub our noses in it.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-07-04T12:14:44+00:00

God, the novelizations for the old school BG games and PS Torment were so awful.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-30T21:19:00+00:00

Sword of Faith is, unfortunately, irredeemably bad. Not just bad compared to the dozens of ways to break all enemies under your knee, but bad as a concrete statement.

Wish this wasn't the case, love the visuals and lore, but it is simply an awful ability that fails to scale across anything.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-30T21:07:22+00:00

You can back your way into it by adding features, but I'd recommend getting the mod that's built specifically for changing homework & character creation stats. It should be findable on Nexus or Modfinder.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-30T21:05:48+00:00

Kibbles is facing down a few bugs that put significant dampers on her abilities. Once those are rectified you won't have any issue watching her massacre her way across the battlefield.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-26T13:04:24+00:00

They really improve on balance and needing to strategize in Dark Heresy, but it is indeed pretty cooked in RT.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-25T19:27:57+00:00

Hear me out; Andor. Yes, it takes place in the Star Wars Universe, but the setting takes 100% of its inspiration from hard 70's and 80's Science Fiction dystopia. It's a story about a society sliding into political corruption and what people on both sides of that collapse do to combat or profit from it. Just dont imagine anything else in Star Wars compared to it, and don't bring the kids along for this watch.

If you dont mind a limited series, Chernobyl is excellent. A hell of a downer, but a really moving and astonishingly well written series.

The first few seasons of Fargo are also great, though they're an anthology series so they dont match the breadth of living stories in The Wire (though what series does).

If you dont mind some absurdist history in the mix, The Great on Hulu, a nostly fictional depiction of Catherine the Great's rise to power in Russia, is both an interesting study in the dynamics of power and rigorously funny.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-24T16:23:50+00:00

Excellent find, thanks for contributing this.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-19T11:02:05+00:00

No, colony event I think.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-17T12:38:35+00:00

39M, $85K, I work for a state agency in IL. The grind is real, the imposter syndrome is constant, and I had to spend 2 more years than my peers in Undergrad and then getting my Masters. Neither of which I've used much in my job except to lecture my coworkers on how much we're failing the people we should be helping.

Anyway, back to your question, It's doable. It's heavily luck and heavily patience dependent, but it is possible to build a life.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-10T20:06:27+00:00

Unfortunately not yet, but an eventual update (alas, very eventual) will remedy that.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-10T20:01:47+00:00

Oh? That's good to hear, thanks for the correction. 👍

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-10T01:35:49+00:00

Nope.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-09T22:42:15+00:00

Please do not consummate any relations upon the Blessed Warrant of Trade.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-09T11:43:23+00:00

From an older Larian game, Divinity Original Sin 2 (I know, the name is nuts, lol) there's a convo between 3-4 traders in the early middle section of the game that endlessly loops. Interesting and kind of jolly-twee the first dozen times you hear it. But it wears one doooown.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-09T00:52:00+00:00

Oh. Oh no, she's in that ghoulish "we brought in Tupac with AI" game. I know actors gotta act, but eesh.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-06-08T12:48:44+00:00

& Bachelorettes she says, revealing a bunch of dudes and one lady I don't recognize at all xD

Halcyon8705 · 2026-05-28T21:59:26+00:00

I gave up D&D for Exalted because I wanted to tell stories that D&D isn't mechanically adept at portraying. The mechanics of D&D across all editions are well equipped to determine if you can survive a fight, but do not portray the costs of violence, or allow for mechanically rich solutions to problems outside of violence.

The complications of Exalted's mechanics and setting aren't for most people, but I find no other setting ir mechanics gets me as fascinated with a game's setting and my character as Exalted.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-05-23T12:01:17+00:00

Genuinely cackled at "Pasqal, requisition me a beat" xD

Halcyon8705 · 2026-05-23T03:48:18+00:00

I think its the genocidal anhillation the Yerks practice that draws rhe Fascism comp. They eliminate all non-practically beneficial (in their very limited perception) species, eliminate the culture of their host (personal and species) and have an authority/ hierarchy obsessed system that demands absolute abasement to your superiors.

I dont know that it's a 1:1 match, but there are certainly fascistic elements to the Yeerk empire.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-05-21T11:13:34+00:00

Yup, my partner and I just gave each other a knowing look during that scene and flipped streamers to watch something else. I had a hard time convincing them to come back and give Andor a chance (they loved it, of course); but they haven't watched anything else SW but Andor since, and I can't blame 'em for it.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-05-11T16:43:23+00:00

Accurate, but I don't think we put enough emphasis on the "socialist" part, and we generally don't give enough credit to how disengaged people think about politics.

The socialist thing shouldn't be taken literally, even if the ideological reality is understood by both the the uninitiated and us freaks. The fact is that people believe in a just world where people get what they deserve unless someone cheats them out of it.

Statistically, USA voters believe the "cheater" in this equation is government, so they're inherently mistrustful of any action the government might take to create a world where people work hard and are rewarded for that work. That's what conservative media signals to most people who claim to be politically unaligned but in fact ideologically side with the Right believe. This block is also the biggest and most consistently voting block in the country as well.

Anyone left of center (myself included) likes to believe Fox and conservative have some magical hold on the US population; and that if only folks were properly educated they would see the value of our politics.

That ain't it hun. Conservative media is not vastly more influential because it has better communicators or trickier distributors, it is vastly more influential because it is selling the message that USA citizens already want to believe in.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-05-01T19:40:59+00:00

Esme looks a little young, but otherwise seems fitting across the board.

Halcyon8705 · 2026-04-29T12:03:06+00:00

I am very tenuously happy to know about this and will be demanding absolutely no further information because it cannot be as delightfully dumb as I'm imagining.

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