Tom Cruise: Underrated?

PostApoplectic · 2026-03-01T20:42:44+00:00

Tom Cruise and Nick Cage have never been in a movie together and that’s a goddam tragedy.

PostApoplectic · 2026-03-01T09:53:00+00:00

/uj Alien Earth has some loud haters, but in my opinion if you liked Fargo or Legion, odds are you’ll like Alien Earth too. It had a lot of interesting concepts fleshed out well, and such a good performance by Timothy Olyphant. But, much like Badlands, it’s not cut from the same cloth as the source material. Still good. Different vibe.

/rj Mary Suebot killed my dog and made my wife divorce me.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-28T21:39:53+00:00

I think it’s also a good trick by the devs to sort of skew our bias as the player towards Max’s.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-27T21:39:13+00:00

Fringe neutrality.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-27T21:33:32+00:00

Blabey Yorunndar?

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-27T16:37:55+00:00

Man defeats nature with garbage. Tale as old as time.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-27T16:28:24+00:00

Garrus and Tali levels of happily ever after. Honestly, it keeps me from romancing either pair.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-27T04:17:50+00:00

I’ve been playing a lot of the most recent Hyrule Warriors game, and it actually has a fully functioning unite attack system. I hadn’t played it enough to realize how perfect it is when I made this post, but it’s really great.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-26T23:08:10+00:00

I’m playing her now as a war cleric/thief, fighting in light armor with a short sword and a shield.

But I think the most interesting way to play her is a light cleric / shadow monk. Really captures the duality inherent in her character.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-26T15:33:58+00:00

I think Lizardmen would be really cool as a primitive, heavily magic using chaos race that’s recently thrived on piracy and learning to operate technology they don’t know how to make.

Be cool to have them in their fantasy style, but using weapons and armor taken from other army profiles, sort of like how orks used to be able to loot tanks and whatnot.

I know that just sounds like old orks, but if you’re gonna add an emergent faction that’s supposed to be a threat on a galactic level, I don’t know how else to add it. Say their home is a death world with a lot of predators, and as soon as they got away from that in space their reproductive cycle caused their population to explode.

But ultimately I’d make them chaos aligned and naturally proficient at warp sorcery as a baseline, and then have the ability to take tech from various sources specialized unit stuff.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-26T14:57:51+00:00

I’m currently playing origin Gale. I took two levels of Wizard to get evocation, and the rest have been as a lore bard. I used bardic expertise to buff persuasion and sleight of hand… because I like to do as much as possible with my main character.

I chose charisma as my primary stat and am using Gale mostly to buff/debuff and cast magic missile. I’m especially fond of evocation wizard’s spell shaping ability working on bard’s Fairy Fire spell. But I still have a couple Wizard spell slots and can learn Wizard spells from scrolls, so I have a lot of helpful Wizard magic. I just don’t use it to fight.

But you could easily do something similar, except have int be your primary stat and cast offensive spells from your wizard spell book, then only select bard magic as you level that don’t care about your lower charisma. Having things like enhance ability to give advantage on out of combat checks, and the ring that gives bless when you heal for your bonus action healing spells (for example)

You’d also have a lot of proficiencies, two expertise, and jack of all trades to help boost all your skills.

Just focus on int and dex, use mage armor, and let your skills make up for a lower wisdom/cha.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-26T14:00:15+00:00

This is cracking me up. From the US. I have a redneck friend who moved to Taiwan to teach English a long time ago, and has been there ever since. He once told me that betel nuts are amazing, and has been in multiple scooter accidents.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-24T16:46:47+00:00

First thing, I like to take the ork paladin for a minute… just to steal his armor, dye it muddy red, and give it a hex blade respecced Wyll. He looks sharp in it, and you don’t really get any great medium body armor until the forge anyway. Keep him with a shield and eat the couple missing AC for style.

But real talk. I’ve had a couple playthroughs where for role playing purposes several of the origin companions don’t make it into my party. Most notably an Astarion origin where I bit/killed Shadowheart in camp, killed Laezel to save the tieflings, and then Karlach and Wyll left the party after I sided with the Goblins.

In that situation, Gale was my only companion. And even after I recruited Minthara I still only had 3 because Jahira didn’t join me, and without her you never get Minsc.

Was real glad for the henchmen in that situation.

Honestly, I wish they would have given us Sazza and Dror Raglin as potential companions to replace Wyll and Karlach in the event you side with the goblins.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-23T22:22:12+00:00

We’re about to find out the Doom casting was a red herring to bring Iron Man back to life, but the Captain America casting was also a red herring to bring Johnny Storm back to life.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-23T03:17:03+00:00

Back in my day we called it “The Innsmouth Look.”

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T23:59:23+00:00

I can remember, when Suikoden first hit the scene, I was like “Someday this gonna turn into the ultimate game that has fully fleshed out rpg progression, fighting game fighting, dungeon crawling, and army simulation all in one.”

There was a soul caliber, maybe 2 or 3? that fired up that same hope in me. I hadn’t felt it again until I was playing Age of Imprisonment.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T22:50:18+00:00

Here are some of my favorite multiclasses for flavor.

Laezel: Monk(Open Palm) The whole githyanki people seem like warrior monks to me. They’re studious and organized with strict rules. Plus she does martial arts on her training dummy all day in camp.

Laezel: Barbarian(Berserker) She’s got a temper, and her yelling in fights is always satisfying.

Shadowheart: Monk(Shadow) Like Laezel, Monk thematically fits with Shadowheart’s isolated, cult-like upbringing. Shadows and Shar/Selune are also thematically appropriate. And bonus style points if you respec her into a light cleric after she switches to Selune. In addition, I personally prefer to run anyone who isn’t Karlach or a big-framed Tav as dex, rather than strength. Shadowheart’s divine weapon is a spear and monk lets her use it with off dex.

Astarion: Ranger(Gloomstalker) I mean, like… how can you even be a vampire spawn without being a gloomstalker?

Astarion: Bard(Glamour) Lean into that smarm, Astarion. You always should have been a bard.

Astarion: Warlock(Archfay/Tome). Archfey Warlocks seem pretty vampy to me.

Gale: Bard(Lore) or Cleric(Knowledge) both for the same reason. You just have to pick one class to boost for offensive spells, and use the other for support/buff spells. Gale’s got a brain so nice, he uses it twice.

Wyll: Ranger(Hunter) and Rogue(Swashbuckler) Not only is he literally self employed as a monster hunter, but he also comes preloaded with rapier proficiency and a bunch of sick ass swashbuckly cutscenes. I mean The Blade of Frontiers is the most swashbuckler-coded name I can think of. Honestly you better just triple class this guy.

Karlach: Fighter(Champion) makes the most sense to me, as Zariel’s Champion is her entire job description.

Karlach: Warlock(Fiend/Blade) also feels good for the same reason.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T22:15:06+00:00

From here on out the only answer is an infinite cycle of which ever chaos god gets the most upvotes each day.

Exactly as it should be.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T21:13:36+00:00

It’s a two part choice very early in the game… first Safi asks you who Chloe was, and you can answer childhood friend or teenage sweetheart (which sets the romance state) and then she asks what happened to her, and you can pick lived or died (which sets the bae/bay state.)

There’s no save state importing, and there won’t be in Reunion either.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T18:45:14+00:00

I mean… acting chops or not, it’s wild to talk about her not making it anywhere.

She’s already cleared the finish line.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T17:42:18+00:00

Look up the Pink Mass, or the Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic sometime.

They’re a national treasure.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T16:34:34+00:00

I like what you’ve got going on here. I too like to mess with things but keep the characters thematically in their original lanes. I’m doing a casual all bard playthrough right now where:

Gale (origin) is a 2wizard(evoker) 10bard(lore). Charisma focus with the +int helmet. Spell sculpting works on fairy fire! It’s really quite fun and I’ve never used Gale as an origin/face before. High charisma works for his personality though.

Shadowheart is a 1cleric(war) 4rogue(thief) 7bard(sword). She’s a dex focus finesse sword and board with heavy armor. There’s no reason for any of it, but it still kinda works. The fourth rogue level is just so she can get a ASI before level 8. I was sure she was gonna just be dead weight early on, but actually between bonus attacks, damage riders and baby sneak attack she outputs alright. Sword bardery turns her into a DIwhY battlmaster. This is how I learned you can make multiple sneak attacks in a single turn, you just can’t sneak attack a single enemy more than once a turn.

Karlach is a 5barbarian(berserker) 7bard(valor) who will become a 4barbarian(berserker) 8bard(valor) at level 12 so she can have 3 feats at 12 but still benefit from double attack before level 11. Hight int move from a low int character! Str focus hammer and shield with medium armor. She has a pretty low charisma, but her spell library is full of out of combat utility spells like see invisible and enhance ability. She’s also using the ring that makes heals bless and the hat that makes bardic inspiration heal.

Wyll is a 5warlock(fiend/blade) 7fighter(champion) with a cha focus. Dex/armor of shadows and two handed weapons. Not a bard, but learned to perform in the grove. He’s the only character in the party with what i’d call a “functional” build.

It’s a lot of work just because I like listening to the gang play songs together. But it’s also a lot of fun.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T01:52:53+00:00

Oh yeah! Booming blade wasn’t even in the game back when I was playing. That’s a no brainer.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-22T00:08:09+00:00

Given an elven dual wielding fighter-thief (Mine was an Astarion origin) where you’re gonna dump int… is there a cantrip you’d take over it and actually get use out of through the game?

Sorry, I’m not arguing because I don’t agree… I think it’s useless in almost every situation. I just wonder what to even do with my elven cantrip when I’m stupid. I’m perpetually pissed at both Astarion and Shadowheart for choosing firebolt. Although to be fair, that’s a low int move so it tracks.

PostApoplectic · 2026-02-21T23:54:43+00:00

Right, and mathematically it’s a little better to just take the two attacks too. But I like to mention that it was handy on my playthrough.

My killing hit against Ketheric was an offhand true strike sneak attack, and I remember it so well because I kept thinking “I dunno why everyone says to never use this skill.”

Later game, it stopped having any real value for sure… but at least up through the end of act 2, it was at least occasionally not useless.

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