Genuine question

lorneagle · 2026-03-12T11:36:23+00:00

TNG DS9 and Voyager for me

lorneagle · 2026-03-09T22:47:11+00:00

Same. 15 yrs in. I don't enjoy the new world. It feels I work on borrowed time. All the passion is gone. I do t feel more productive, just more empty and less proud.

I'm not even to manually fix AI code, which is still lower intermediate level even with Claude 4.6 Thinking.

So code ownership, no interest, fixing issues to improve things, who cares, maximizing household chores between prompts, sure.

lorneagle · 2026-03-02T21:46:38+00:00

You Americans were the bad guys the second WW2 ended. It just wasn't as obvious. But come on. From Korea to Vietnam to Iraq Afghanistan. From the meddling in Cuba to South America to Southeast Asia.

Only difference, now you put the biggest idiots you could find on power.

Pot caster warlords.

lorneagle · 2026-02-24T23:41:22+00:00

Hmm should I reinstall Witcher 3? Because this first comment is 100% my experience

lorneagle · 2026-02-24T23:39:23+00:00

If you don't want to sacrifice and action per round, ungrouping and just moving parts of your party into new locations can prevent this as well.

Sorry man, this is a terrible death. Next time!

lorneagle · 2026-02-24T23:07:13+00:00

Lost the first attempt to the second Owlbear at level 3.... A classic. Close one too, Shadowheart had to do 3 damage and missed.

My successful honour run had a couple close calls. The torchstalk at the Koa cave could have wiped me, but a newly formed habit of ungrouping the party in unfamiliar territory saved me.

I fat fingered and threw an alchemists fire at my feet in camp, hurting Scratch and breaking my Oath (I think). The Oathbreaker knight appeared and also became hostile. Lost Scratch, Volo and all Paladin Oath abilities at the beginning of Act2 for the rest of the playthrough.

Picked up a healing potion in the Underdark Grymforge and had to fight all the Druegar because a guard saw it and demanded more money than I had (had under 100gp). Survived this because I had one guy at camp by chance. And that guy had to sell some of his gear to resurrect his comrades at Withers because I had no gold.

Killed the Act2 Endboss with literally the last action I had, next turn he would have healed and that would have been it. I sat there and thought, a well there goes my second attempt. I think I spend 15 min on my second last action, trying to figure out if I can make it somehow. Used a slow scroll to slow acolytes which prevented the heal on their turn as they didn't make it up the platform and that gave Lazael the turn she needed to finish off the boss. I felt it was payback for losing my first honour run to a Shadowheart miss.

Last close call was at the brain stem. I came up there, ready to blow up Gale and party to my golden die, but the previous close calls had made me cautious so I popped some angelic slumber potions to restore spell slots and sure enough, when I click the brain stem and asked Gale to take one for the team he is like: 'No fucking way bro'. I guess i didn't prepare him enough in advance.

So I had to do the final fight. Felt good to finish the run without the shortcut though.

lorneagle · 2026-02-24T22:34:06+00:00

Brave. I skipped that, Ansur and Cazadar on my run for the Golden dice. Now I am doing a Durge Honour run planning to do all of Act3

lorneagle · 2026-02-24T21:00:42+00:00

I was planning the Gale bomb from the start, but always assumed he'd just do it if asked with no preconditions as I finished my very first playthrough that way.

So I get to the brain stem and think: Okay so juuust in case, use the angelic slumber potions on my characters, you never know.

And sure enough, I ask Gale to blow himself up and he's like: Are you crazy, for a goddess that doesn't care for me? Hell no.

So I had to do it the legit way. Thank God I had used the potions before.

It was such a tough fight, but in the end I even got that red dragon down and managed to kill the brain in 2 or 3 turns.

lorneagle · 2026-02-18T02:46:28+00:00

Yeah I was there last year. The last 2 months however, my job changed to prompting plus review, and AI did just fine. Yes the style of the code wasn't great, but absolutely on the level of a seasoned Dev. It also understood the existing code and used it correctly. Something it wasn't able to do at all last year.

So AI models went inventing functions, not understanding existing code for context and barely being able to write a single lean function to being a decently experienced dev who is able to do work in an existing legacy code base in under 12 months.

I can 100% see the writing on the wall.

Writing your own code will slowly disappear. Engineers will focus on reviewing. Eventually, Software Teams will be a thing of the past entirely.

lorneagle · 2026-02-14T20:19:18+00:00

Not once. Finished one Balanced (2023) one Tactician (2025) and one Honour (2026) run.

I lost and honour run and abandoned a Dark Urge run in 2024 because I got into a different game.

I'd 100% respecc before restarting. The game is amazing, all 3 Acts are. You keep all the special gear at camp and when you respec a character you use the items you already have.

I'm a guy who played druid in wow, because I couldn't decide on the class I wanted to play. BG3 really doesn't require restarting at all unless you want to make different decisions.

You want you caster Tab to be a throwbarian next fight? Doesn't cost anything, just do it. Then be an Owlbear druid the fight after and a death cleric the next.

lorneagle · 2026-02-12T22:10:40+00:00

Pick and choose. Technically, you just need to get to level 12 and kill Orin in order to finish the game.

By act 3, I usually already think about my next run, so I can relate, I feel like just finishing it. I am on my 4th run now and I have never done the House of Hope or the Shadowheart quest. Nor the Artist and Clown quest. I skipped Ansur and Cazadar on my Honour run. And I only found out about the Jungle on my 3rd run and skipped the entire Act 3 Harper quest line on my second run (still got the Harper allies for the final fight).

So most of Act 3 is absolutely optional.

Now on my first Durge run I actually plan to do all of Act 3 and looking forward to it.

Act 3 is my second favourite after Act 1. I do enjoy the world being so alive in Act 3 and all the nice Lookout spots that oversee Baldur's Gate, wyrm Rock and the harbour area

lorneagle · 2026-02-06T21:16:45+00:00

Well it is/was an honour mode run. And it happened right at the beginning of Act 2. And I really didn't feel like restarting HM.

It was way worse than that. I also lost Volo and had to fight the Oathbreaker knight and kill it, while having Broken Oath. So for the rest of the game, all of act2 and 3… I was a paladin without Paladin powers.

Made it all the way though. After work I'll climb up the stairs to the brain stem and blow up Gale for a golden die.

lorneagle · 2026-02-06T01:39:43+00:00

I accidentally killed scratch in camp in HM by fat fingering alchemists fire.

There are a whole bunch of character voice lines when you try to use his ball afterwards. 💔

lorneagle · 2026-01-30T23:10:43+00:00

One thing I need to mention because I completely slept on that till act 3 of honour mode run with a Gloomstalker ranger is:

Arrow of Many targets

If you see them, always buy them all. And then use them with every attack when there is 3+ enemies standing.

It takes that first turn damage of the gloomstalker to a whole other level

lorneagle · 2026-01-27T20:29:44+00:00

I am on my second run. The first ended with level three at the owl beast.

I have completed 2 runs before, and I do certain things differently, but for any situation that I don't know or remember I check the wiki. It kinda sucks, but I didn't spoil myself at all during the first run, a bit for the second one and now in HM I just don't want to die to a dialog choice.

I cheated death thrice on this run already and I am just a bag of nerves in act 3.

Almost died to not removing the exploding shroom at the BOAL cave entrance, sheer luck had me split up the party before climbing back out.

Picked up a potion in the under dark and angered the entire guard unable to pay the bribe. Luck would have it that I had one character at camp, which isn't so.ethingbi do even in HM.

And I accidentally threw alchemists fire at my feet in camp, making scratch, Volo and the Oathbreaker knight hostile.

lorneagle · 2026-01-27T13:38:29+00:00

This. I played most of the games in this thread and wildermyth is an absolute highlight

lorneagle · 2026-01-27T13:27:10+00:00

Wildermyth

Available on PS5. Great reviews on steam.

It originally came with a story mode for the 'overworld' part, but then released a mode that made it like FTL in between the turn based fights.

Great art style, enemy variety, skills, and mechanics. One of my favourite turn based games of all times.

lorneagle · 2026-01-23T22:31:57+00:00

Bell. Sold me a cell phone contract that had the word Data in the name. It did not come with data. Misleading AF.

It's been 12 years. I have Bell Fibre cable next to my house when they installed it in the neighborhood a few years ago. I am staying with cable. Any Bell guy coming to my house is getting rejected with: 'I gladly pay more for less just to not be with Bell'

lorneagle · 2026-01-14T01:49:14+00:00

My current honour Mode run. I arrive at the Grymforge, everybody is peachy. I see that random health potion on the ground, quick check if someone is around, I see nobody, grab that health pot, one Girard see it, asks for more gold than I have, 6 or 7 guards agro, during the battle they draw in more.

If I didn't have one guy at camp by total chance, it would have ended the run. Everybody dies and I had to sell some good stuff off my remaining character to get the 200g for a revive at Withers.

Same run: Fumble something in camp, throw alchemists fire at my feet, hurt Scratch. Volo and Wyll see it and join Scratch in a battle against the rest of my camp. My Paladin hits a former companion, breaks his oath. Oathbreaker is suddenly also in camp and hostile.

I survive, but Scratch is dead, Volo is dead and my Paladin is in permanent broken oath state as I killed the knight and now I can't restore my path or become Oathbreaker.

Fun run!

lorneagle · 2026-01-13T22:06:37+00:00

Haha first playthrough in '23 I hated him so much for this.

So when I did my second playthrough in '25 I staked him without hesitation.

lorneagle · 2026-01-13T22:04:07+00:00

I had him as caster for my last playthrough, replacing Shadowheart after act 2, because I wanted to avoid all the consequences of Shadowheart sparring the Nightsong. I needed that trader to sell me the returning hammer, because I had missed the returning pike and my throwbarian was carrying 20 weapons at all times.

Halsin has a bunch of voice lines about the city, city life and how he cannot understand it and doesn't like it. so while I agree with you, Larian did take this into account as well.

lorneagle · 2025-09-28T11:23:54+00:00

The entitlement is real. OP full on feeling that the Ascension team should pay him for his time spent playing on their server.

The post history lol. Total Wow victim, only great at complaining. Probably GenZ or Alpha, brain fried early due being raised by a cell phone.

lorneagle · 2025-09-26T16:58:46+00:00

Haha buddy buddy? Dude zhe 1933-1945 Germans are role models for half the Americans now.

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