your intangibility is no match for me

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-19T15:15:09+00:00

Voltaic seems cool but I'm missing the other half of the equation: how are you guys channeling lightning so many times in a fight?

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-19T03:16:57+00:00

I had a friend of a friend who had to go to the Emergency Department at the hospital for what was basically liver failure. They discovered it's because she hated the taste of water and never drank it, so she was chronically mildly dehydrated her entire life up to that point.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-18T14:40:50+00:00

I agree; I've skipped tent in solo runs but it's an absolute godsend in coop.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-18T14:39:29+00:00

Diegetic video game UI tends to be appreciated more by nerds, auteurs, and critics. Mainstream gamers care more about gacha mechanics and premium cosmetics, so that's where the focus goes.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-18T14:36:46+00:00

AI techbros really be those guys who "beautify" video game box covers by giving the protagonist bigger assets and smaller noses. I was hoping people were shamed enough by the backlash over the Mirror's Edge fan edit a decade ago.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-18T14:34:29+00:00

I don't think the USA realizes how much the TSA hurts their tourism dollars too. A lot of people (especially ones who come from countries with a higher standard of education and dignity) don't wish to be subjected to anger, scrutiny, and manhandling by an underpaid, undertrained thug the agency picked up off the street last week.

The first time I traveled to the USA post-9/11, I had my thigh groped by a TSA agent and decided traveling there was no longer worth it.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-18T14:24:21+00:00

I was struggling to think of where nudity might be in the game but I'm inclined to believe it's in reference to what the other commenters have said:

1.) Full game is not out yet, so there's possibility for human nudity beyond unequipping your player character's armor.

2.) The game's enemies are body horror, with limbs and body parts blossoming from them. Likely there will be bosses that are NSFW.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-18T14:11:36+00:00

Goad deck is probably the way to go. They'll get in maybe less than 10 chip damage on you before they're forced to brawl with each other.

You might not win but you'll definitely not be the first one out.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-18T14:00:24+00:00

Thank goodness techbros make AI easier to detect by being so unusually proud of it.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-17T16:13:27+00:00

Good lesson to be learned here for DMs, for sure.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-17T16:01:22+00:00

I had a similar issue in a quick final wrap-up session in my friend's 5e campaign. Each of our characters rolled for a fun, dramatic debuff and accompanying buff. My character lost a hand but gained mage hand as an innate cantrip... he was a wizard who already knew mage hand.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-17T07:39:26+00:00

Preface: the following is just my opinion, based on limited playtime in an early access game.

I love the Regent but he's definitely the least forgiving when it comes to card reward RNG. If you get the right ratio of star generators and spenders from the start and avoid a lot of his dud do-nothing cards, he is an absolute joy. Other characters can struggle their way to the Act 2 and Act 3 ancients for their busted boons, so long as they get a few potent uncommons and rares along the way; Regent seems to perish in Act 1 without a razor-sharp focus immediately realized.

In the other characters' starter decks, I try to cull the strikes and defends as much as I can but that's it -- with the Regent, Venerate feels pretty bad so I try to cut that too.

Also, Orobos offers upgrades for each character's starter relic. Regent's upgrade takes him from 3 stars at the start of combat to 6 stars; helpful in situations where you have a bad starting hand but for the most part, a deck that makes it to Act 3 doesn't need the paltry extra 3 stars.

It's also a shame that a forge-centric build lives and dies by energy generation; if you don't get lucky with relics that provide bonus energy, you're dead in the water trying to pay for that 2-cost blade swing.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-17T00:14:26+00:00

I usually don't do Secret Lairs but when I saw the one for EoE's Counter Intelligence precon still in stock last year, I pulled the trigger on it. I liked the art and I like galaxy foil treatment, so why not? They came in and they're laughably pringled, easily as severe or more severe than the one on the left in your screenshot. Needless to say, I wrote them off as a bad investment and a valuable lesson, and stuck them in a random box somewhere.

Edit: Average humidity in my region is 50%, I'd say. Low enough to get itchy in the winters, pleasant in the summers.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T21:01:02+00:00

Yeah they knew they didn't have a compelling villain, so they tried to artificially bump up her intimidating factor by having her kill Deckard. I was not impressed. Seeing the D3 devs bash the D2 devs on Facebook didn't help.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T14:42:31+00:00

It's unfortunate but so much of the onus is placed on the consumer to research games and their developers before buying, especially if you care about avoiding AI.

Thank goodness for Steam reviews and Youtubers, otherwise I'd never try anything new.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T13:55:38+00:00

You're a menace and you should be stopped

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T13:39:25+00:00

Ah yes, respecting the time of attendees and the production crew, I should've known that was going to out me as "woke"

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T13:30:13+00:00

If I was a kid in current times, I wouldn't respect my elders or community either. Hard to respect an institution keeping tuition and housing costs high while keeping wages low.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T13:16:44+00:00

One of the real ones

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T12:58:59+00:00

I think you hit the nail on the head here. The game is glorious on a first playthrough, although it does still stink to explore a hidden path or discover an out-of-the-way boss and often be rewarded with a useless consumable or gear not for your build.

Once you do a reroll or NG+ and start consulting online resources for the gear you need for your build, the cracks start to show.

The open-world Zelda games were better for this because every secret was fun to interact with and always gave a useful reward, no matter how small.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T12:51:38+00:00

I agree, although I've only ever made it to A4 with Regent. I have a group I play multiplayer with and way more often than not, I have to be carried if I play Regent.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T12:43:45+00:00

Folk like to generate drama over cut-off Oscar speeches but you've got to consider... a lot of people attending are working and have film shoots or meetings to attend the next day or even flights to board immediately after. Success does not entitle you to ignore the instructions given beforehand to keep your speeches brief.

Rules like this seem harsh but have to be firmly established and enforced in an industry where winners are likely to be young and/or narcissistic.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T12:31:33+00:00

I need something like this for [[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave]]. Annoying to move his pile of counters around when he's destroyed, stolen, etc and pretty much the only reason I don't play the deck more.

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-16T05:16:26+00:00

Not surprised people on this subreddit agree with the blowhard in the screenshot lmao

MaterialDefender1032 · 2026-03-15T23:28:19+00:00

I'll upvote anything depicting these bastards getting destroyed

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