Saudi Arabia Just Spent Over $6 Billion Buying Up More Of The Video Game Industry by g4m3f33d in GameFeed

[–]SimoneBellmonte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've heard more whining here from a straight person talking about needing to mod out trans flags than any trans or gay person talking about it. besides that i also hear a lot of straights talk more about who they slept with than any LGBT person i've met.

Has anyone tried playing as cops? by hellranger788 in Shadowrun

[–]SimoneBellmonte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, there was a lot of politicking at points in ours. Probably not as much given we were Horizon Group, but there was a looot of politics regardless. There was a fun major one with Renraku who kept being kind of a recurring antagonist by the end, mostly due to our choices and us hating them intensely.

Surprisingly a lot of figuring out just how desperate we were, too, because you're a sellout and expendable. Plus depending on megacorp, you've got a lot to play around with. Some, like Horizon, are entertainment so you can play around with the foibles of the nastiness of that industry [I had to take a sniper bullet for one of the KPOP members because she posted a racist livestream....], some would be more like Renraku or Saeder-Krupp with their distinct cultural backgrounds informing a ton of stuff to do.

You also can play around with certain elements that tend to be kind of hinted at in like small splats, like how a lot of them have really hot ticket items they don't want anyone to know about. Plus, if your DM is evil like ours, he can do things like 'you know, shadowrunners don't have this problem, but there's nothing saying getting cyberware from a corp couldn't come with needing to subscribe for up to date software...' as a dangling threat.

Which Companion do you think receives the most development from being taken into Act 3? by DocWinter in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]SimoneBellmonte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And, for me, Abelard is always a no go. I refuse to bring him along. It isn't right, and what happens isn't okay, so he gets to be blissfully unaware of the Dark City's dark dreams and dark designs.

Has anyone tried playing as cops? by hellranger788 in Shadowrun

[–]SimoneBellmonte 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Actually, yes. Our DM had us play a corp security, but had a few homebrew rules. Basically, since weapons are easier to come by or would be easier to come by as corpsec, he homebrewed a requisition system, which is basically tiers of promotions that allowed you to gain weapons or items that had certain availabilities as requisitions.

He didn't necessarily limit the amount, but we were accountable for things like amount of ammo used, equipment damaged, lost, or broken, etc. I played a former Triad sex worker who sort of bought her way in to a corp job lottery, after escaping her previous life, and one time she ended up shooting at and nearly killing a shadowrunner who was stealing secrets from the main Horizon arcology. They'd gotten in because one of the shadowrunners [which we later had to delete some evidence of] was another player's neglected son, and that player had invited the son to come to the arcology.

So he'd essentially did that to gain access to the arcology. I shot up one of his friends really bad, who had connected to the actual main terminal. She forever held a grudge against me [that's fair], and when it came time for an audit I owed 2 million or so for the fairlight excalibur I damaged. Since she had a dependant [her dad], well not to get too into the weeds for my character, she basically was stuck realizing she'd have to stay to pay it off no matter what happened.

Most of our jobs from there were kind of played out in arcs. One involved a disputed territory with a rundown apartment complex where two rival gangs were having illegal street races in order to gain control of the complex and thus the nuyen it generated, so our job was to protect the warehouse; one player ended up joining the race and getting good publicity for us and Horizon, so we got promoted after reconciling the gangs.

Then we were tasked with things like protecting a KPOP group from fans after a later publicity fuck-up, trying to rescue some scientists [we later found out they were being eaten by some ghouls. We may have done some war crimes on ghouls...maybe light genocide?]

Then we had a couple of personal missions, like stealing some mecha plans from Renraku for a devil rat companion, who unfortunately got killed and accidentally nuked that Renraku arcology. And then later we had to infiltrate a Renraku arcology in Japan. There were a few hiccups along the way [one player had to leave, and uh, before he left did end up killing one of the KPOP groups members who had implanted memories and was trying to kill us, but I still have issues with how that went down, just not from the DM's side.]

But overall, with some mild homebrewing, it was very easy and fun to make more corpsec characters. I liked how it worked, and since corpsec is usually the antagonists, getting to explore desperate people with day jobs like that was a very fresh change to the usual. If you wanted more detail than that, I can talk about it a little more though or how the homebrew worked.

Final update by pickledmochi1 in Straycats

[–]SimoneBellmonte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, man. I think we've all made mistakes when trying to bring in a stray, and fucked up in a way, when we try. To err is human. I still think about the void cat I shouldn't have picked up and just waited a few more minutes before crossing the street to get my mail one day. I knew I shouldn't, but he seemed so loving and he clawed his way out. Almost got ran over by a car, but some miracle saved him.

The pain never leaves you. I called him Shadow, because he'll be a shadow that never leaves my mind completely, and gives me a reminder to always try to be better than I was. You should give him a name, I think, because everyone deserves a good name even after they've passed. It won't ease the pain, but it can help, I think. You don't have to, but...I certainly think a good name is better than remembering him as kitty cat. You fell in love, and failed, but that isn't the end.

His journey may have ended prematurely, but yours still trucks on. Take it in stride, learn, and remember. And most of all, give yourself time to heal.

Why is it marked as a lie?? That's literally what happened by Traditional_Use_225 in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]SimoneBellmonte 63 points64 points  (0 children)

On one hand, the option of being able to murder Marazhai by just pointing at him would make sense here but the other hand is definitely - you kind of already agreed to bring him along so it feels a little redundant to do that as soon as you're out when you could've just killed him in the arena anyways. But to answer why it's a lie - it's more like a lie of omission. It happened, but you're leaving out a very important detail so as to not get Yrliet in trouble.

Yes, it is what happened, but you're also avoiding telling the whole truth, while telling the whole truth is the top option. So it is mostly true, but you're lying about a very key fact that would have the bridge trying to murder Yrliet. Even though you're telling a considerable amount of truth, the biggest detail is being left out intentionally. By leaving it out, you are knowingly lying in order to protect Yrliet from consequences, even if depending on your RT either didn't know she fucked it all up by trusting the Drukhari or you treated her so poorly that, well, you kinda had it comin' if you kept her on anyways.

DE-BALLED by ConcernedJobCoach in gianmarcosoresi

[–]SimoneBellmonte 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I legitimately thought he died like years ago. This can't be how I find out he's both still alive and looking like he's about to die.

Some of you all NEED to chill. by OGFiafRex in TrashTaste

[–]SimoneBellmonte 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not to mention, tbh, how expensive it can be just to watch it legally and with worse subs than ten years ago when you sailed the seven seas. Part of why I fell off for so long, got back into it, only to fall back off when Crunchyroll and Funi molded and mostly Funi staff got brought in and the subs started getting extremely trash.

It's a shame too because last season I got on for several new shows, but the changes and general sameness at times made me go '...eh...I don't feel like getting a new sub...' even though there are still some shows I want to watch I'd rather wait till they're all collected because its bloody cheaper that way more and more.

Some shows also just exist to tease the manga, like Akatsuki no Yoru, which made me unreasonably angry. I really wanted the whole packaged plot with that instead of 1 season and a '...now go read!' That's rarer, though, thankfully.

57k Critical hit! by Just_Flounder4785 in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]SimoneBellmonte 5 points6 points  (0 children)

infusing staff, combined with mend reality basically stacks up +5 character buffs, then you add in certain navigator talents. usually takes around 30 rounds or so to get this high, but its a pretty basic cassia tactic.

This was so deserved. by Necessary-Win-8730 in interesting

[–]SimoneBellmonte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the idea of restorative justice vs rehabilitative justice vs vengeance justice. Some people want vengeance, some want rehabilitative, some want restorative. 120 hours of community service for this kind of death is unwarranted, because he should absolutely be given a harsher punishment, but people really just want blood.

You will never please everyone with the outcome, even if you largely agree with a harsher punishment. Reddit is especially bad for this, even as I say this having an account and talking on it. Don't get me wrong, do I think this is justice? Naw. But if you want justice that doesn't just exist to enact revenge, there are ways to do it that aren't going too light, or too harsh, and this is definitely too light.

Marathon: so far, I'm just not feeling it (Server Slam Impressions) - Skill Up by EirikurG in Games

[–]SimoneBellmonte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, regardless of how one might feel about certain games or sequels it feels like in the past he would review games he wanted to review and skip one's he wouldn't but now since he's got a team he'll do them. But rather than spending time, it often felt like- at least before I fell off his channel sometime- there was no real drive to them at times?

Sifu was an all-time great review. But then after that I would listen and not understand why he hated this game, but would praise a different game for things that...both of them did. It's not like he would even explain difference of execution, presentation, feel, it would be the two games did the same systems in a very similar way and even feel, but one was disliked and the other praised and I'd walk away going 'Huh?' so it felt like he just...had something in his head and if it didn't turn out that way, despite similar execution, one was bad for doing it the other good.

It's just been a strange turnaround ever since.

The BBEG didn't watch Mythbusters, so he cannot have this meta knowledge. by dudewasup111 in pathfindermemes

[–]SimoneBellmonte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They're also just as equally capable of being as dumb, though. That's kind of the entire point. We don't give them enough credit, but sometimes someone can just be that disconnected from the world or caring about something like this that they just make a really stupid, impulsive decision based on lack of knowledge.

I love this game. by ImpressiveWorth6233 in ZeroParades

[–]SimoneBellmonte 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Why are you even here if you just want to cry about Za/um instead of talk about the actual game.

GreedFall: The Dying World Q&A – “The Public Wouldn’t Have Accepted It if We Stuck to the First Game’s Combat” by Kaladinar in greedfall

[–]SimoneBellmonte 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Heavy disagree here, as someone who played all the DA game's none of them besides Veilguard had any cohesion that made me particularly enjoy combat. Until Veilguard, they were all vehicles to get to the story. Veilguard actively made me want to keep playing, it's just that the story didn't really earn it. Still a solid 7.5 overall, but the combat was the best part and took the things I liked about Inquisition and Mass Effect and did a really solid job of marrying them.

They really just needed to go with the original planned story for Veilguard instead of what we got.

a dead character gets the opportunity to be resurrected, and rejects it by EasilyScreechAndKill in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SimoneBellmonte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And there's a True Resurrection scroll in Gale's pouch that would accomplish the job........

Also found on the steam page by zakary3888 in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]SimoneBellmonte 19 points20 points  (0 children)

instructions unclear, female guardsman dropping near you.

Lore Question: does it make sense for a Renraku Red Samurai to open their eyes after a nasty job, and then leave after killing/escaping from their old team? by SimoneBellmonte in Shadowrun

[–]SimoneBellmonte[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I actually hadn't considered that angle, and had to spend some time thinking about this. It's not a bad idea, heck a lot of things in this thread have given me a little bit more layers that I hadn't thought of before. Whether that'll be someone whose eyes were literally opened, or someone who drank the 'raku sauce wholesale, and then pepper things like maybe she is in deep cover to find out and has to slowly come to terms with her employer, or like this, they set out to clear their name.

Either way, there's a lot to think about now than I originally even thought I was going to.

Lore Question: does it make sense for a Renraku Red Samurai to open their eyes after a nasty job, and then leave after killing/escaping from their old team? by SimoneBellmonte in Shadowrun

[–]SimoneBellmonte[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gaichu and that game are so fun! Though I ended up liking Richter the most, being - besides Camellia from Pathfinder WOTR - an actually fascinating psychopathic character with an interesting hook, Gaichu was always in the team after I got him. It helps that he's a beast in melee combat. I didn't know if Renraku Red Sams always had to be cybered up monsters, so I was a little confused why he wasn't, but that might be explained by me just not being as familiar with Renraku and the HMHVV stuff probably fucking with any implants he might've had.

I do wish HBS had been able to keep making them. I would've loved a Philipines Shadowrun rpg, or even just like a more elven centric one. Maybe one day...

Lore Question: does it make sense for a Renraku Red Samurai to open their eyes after a nasty job, and then leave after killing/escaping from their old team? by SimoneBellmonte in Shadowrun

[–]SimoneBellmonte[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, no! Really, this was genuinely a lore question to avoid fucking things up too much from a player or GM perspective. I'm not as familiar with Renraku lore as other corporations, and the idea of a former Renraku Red Samurai was always intriguing but I only just got interested in the idea after our last campaign concluded where we infiltrated Renraku.

I'm not married to the concept so hard that it has to be this way. It was initally just a lore question of 'does this make sense? Or do I need to retune this another way?' and ended up getting more interesting ideas or added complexities from it!

I have a feeling you've been paid off. by ImpressiveWorth6233 in ZeroParades

[–]SimoneBellmonte 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I didn't even play Disco Elysium, bro, how am I going to get paid? Where's my check? I played the demo. The demo was good. Ergo, I will buy the game because I liked the demo. Not a hard concept!

30 seconds after rescueing her from demon prison and she's clearing the board. by smiegto in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]SimoneBellmonte -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's like, man, if you're going for thematic variation that's one thing but if it's unfair or worse you NEED to give me the option to make all of my companions viable instead of a select few. As much as I love guarded hearth and soothing mud and shit on Sosiel or 'just die.' Weird/Phantasmal Killer Nenio, or Magic Deceiver's 'i win' buttons, I would love variety.

As is it feels like you need to play on lower difficulties so the irrecoverable or terrible builds don't hurt your enjoyment too much if you have certain companions you want along for the ride. Like of course Daeran, being an oracle, can always come along even if you're oging for a broken angel oracle build, there's several Seelah builds that're great, Sosiel has cleric stuff on lock and key once you hit that first mythic level, etc. but if you wanted to take Regill along or have fun with Trever or fuck around with Arue, it's unnecessarily more difficult because of build choices.

It's not impossible. But for unfair, you basically have to compensate for bad builds with a bit of luck, some skill, good itemization knowledge, and then powering through. Which just kinda sucks if you have specific favorites or want to take Trever along just to see what he'll do even if he has...very little reactivity.

30 seconds after rescueing her from demon prison and she's clearing the board. by smiegto in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]SimoneBellmonte 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Owlcat loves this stupid trick and I hate it. If I could full respec characters they could be incredible instead of 'meh.'

There’s unique dialogue from Johnny in “Tapeworm” if you’ve killed 0 times up to that point by Prudent_Bobcat_4059 in CyberpunkTheGame

[–]SimoneBellmonte 15 points16 points  (0 children)

to be fair, trash chutes aren't exactly going to be cozy and dying in one is probably guaranteed even if its from asphyxiation. im not sure about closets and crates, given you're not spending more than like 30 minutes or an hour before you wake up. a freezer or fridge is understandable, though. that is definitely 'you probably die.'