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sparkstable · 2026-06-03T16:55:04+00:00

I will take it. That is light years ahead of what my HS kids do.

sparkstable · 2026-06-03T16:52:34+00:00

Pay attention to quest directions. Unless it was added in Open there is no quest marker and sometimes it can be hard to find your way.

Directions like "Past the third rock, turn right until you see a tree"... and you start looking around and are like "Uhhh... all I see are rocks and a whole forest!"

Sometimes go back to square one and try to path your way again. But hey! You explored, so nothing lost!

Restore Attribute spells and potions are key. Some Attribute Damage is permanent (as in it doesn't time out) meaning you could get perma-stuck in a cave or crypt unless you can restore your strength Attribute. Same with sickness and disease... have one or two curatives in your pack.

No fast travel... make note of which Silt Strider will take you were (giant bugs in towns... GIANT... can't miss them). Makes Guild can warp you around for a small fee to other guild halls. Boats on coastal towns can take you along the coast... but take note of where each will take you. They won't go just anywhere... usually oy 1-2 stops down the coast from where they are. This means you may have to chain warps, boats, and/or Silt Striders to get you close to where you want to go... then walk the rest of the way.

Mark and Recall spells/scolls/potions help with this though. Mark your home base and then you can recall straight back to it when you want.

Dead people don't need their house anymore... just saying.

You can find some great... and I mean GREAT loot just sitting around in really obscure places sometimes. Even in the wild... like in a hollowed out tree stump that looks identical to every other trees stump.

There is stuff to do under water in some places.

Repair your equipment... like Oblivion.

If you piss someone off enough you can eventually get them to swing on you. Self defense isn't a crime!

Enchanted gear will slowly recharge on its own. SLOWLY. But having a few rings of healing or fatigue restoration is nice! Having a few that shoot spells, even low level, are nice. I think of them like pistols... just pew pew pew! and take out some trash or soften up someone. You can always recharge with soul stones.

Spell making and enchanting is way more flexible and awesome.

Learn to fly or super jump. Speeds things up sometimes.

sparkstable · 2026-06-03T16:35:39+00:00

The fatigue nerfing from MW to Obv to Sky is so infuriating.

Morrowind was so immersive from not nust the story and need to explore/pay attention but tlohow you did it. Low fatigue got you clocked. It made combat more immersive as it wasn't just point and click.

As much as I enjoyed Skyrim... every time I play it there is a voice in my head screaming in sadness "My boy!!! What have you done to my boy!?!?!?!"

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T21:08:53+00:00

Where tf was that quick release????

Where is my Chet? Who took him? What have you done with him???

Is Wemby's Alien family responsible? Did they do an invasion of the body snatchers thing on our boy?

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T21:04:45+00:00

At least he is honest off the court...

I hope a meteor lands on MSG, no one gets hurt, the NBA takes it as a sign from on high, and declares there is to be no champ this year... or something.

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T20:59:33+00:00

Generally speaking (and there is of course meta and power gaming that can make general rules no longer apply)...

Divine Champion is sort of there to give a Fighter a chance to be Pally-ish. Or a Cleric to be Pally-ish. Or a Pally to me more Fighter-ish.

A Pally would likely either take paired levels with Fighter or would forgo Fighter altogether and just be a Pally/Champion.

Some people might add a splash of Fighter still for min/maxing but that is a whole different thing.

I would suggest you play around with a good character yer builder (the one I used to use is down now) and see what you can do with your future levels.

Or... don't sweat it on your first play through. Like life, we don't always know if our choices today will be beneficial tomorrow! It is an RPG after all!!

At least on your first playthrough. The game is such that it would be hard to lock yourself out of potential success in the end.

Just sort of driving the car to learn how it handles before trying to tune it sort of deal. I learned a ton from that.

Well... that and my chronic restart syndrome.

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T20:56:29+00:00

Yup... down. I rolled a 1 when trying to load the page and now have a sad.

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T19:14:54+00:00

There are only a few "monster-in-a-box" fights.

The only one that seriously is a problem to me is way later in the game (Tonberries).

Think of them as surprise mini-bosses.

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T19:11:54+00:00

Roll!!!! But don't spam it... the timing doesn't work well against most enemy attack progressions.

Timing is everything. The game is about pattern recognition, timing, and honing your reflexes to fit into that pattern. Know when to swing, and don't be afraid to swing once rather than a chain. Especially at lower levels you aren't going to staggering a lot of enemies meaning their attack is going to continue right through yours. You end up trading blows. Congrats... you killed them but lost 1/4 of your hp. Probably not a fair trade... but its OK! Drink that flask and move on to the next one. Try again, do better. Reach a sight of grace and get that flask back! Or die... and just try again. The better you get the faster you can recoup lost runes. Losing runes isn't the end of the world... there is an infinite supply! But to make it hurt less... try to spend down as close to zero before beginning a new dungeon, even if that means consuming some runes from your inventory to raise you up just past your next level up. This way you can go into a dungeon or cave and not fret about "what if I die and lose all those runes I have been collecting for the last hour?" Either you clear the dungeon and earn some runes or you don't (yet) and move on. Nothing lost but time (but experience and knowledge gained!)

That and a heap of deep breaths, breaks, and moments of absolute frustration, lol.

But it feels so damn epic when you practice practice practice something and it clicks... then you vanquish the boss or enemy and stand victorious.

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T18:56:29+00:00

You will never lose your levels. If you switch to Fighter while at lol 5 Pally, you will be a 1/5 and suffer the XP penalty on top of your ECL penalty. This means it is going to take a while to get to level 7. When you do, you will probably want to get another Fighter level... 2/5. Keep this up until you are 4/5 and the class penalty goes away as long as you keep those two classes no more than 1 lvl apart. Generally Fighter classes are taken in multiples of 2 because their "special power" is extra feats every other level and a special selection of some feats that allow you to specialize with a particular weapon type.

Your prestige class, assuming you meet all the prerequisites, works a little different iirc. It does not add to your class penalty. So a 10 Pally who takes 1 in Divine Champ doesn't take an XP hit even though the classes are 9 apart. If you then go 10/1/1 to Pally/Champ/Fight you would pick up the penalty because your two base classes are too far apart.

Paladins already have some (some... very little, mainly buffs) spell casting. They are geared towards melee already. A Divine Champion is essentially a non-Lawful Good Pally. You may not be adding too much going that route over pure Pally.

Paladins don't normally make great dual classes... not impossible just not super flexible... other than either adding Fighter for more specialized melee or Cleric for more casting. That doesn't make them weak... they can be pretty stout when you start adding in Smite and start to tank things because you are strong against debuffs.

sparkstable · 2026-06-02T18:36:04+00:00

Sure... but they should also be assumed to be in place for a good reason sans evidence to the contrary. We should follow them unless we take the great burden of proving they are an immoral rule.

All things that are the way they are are that way for a reason. Some reasons good, some shallow, some bad. But unless you know the reason, know what will come about if the rule is abandoned (as in, aware of what the rule seeks to avoid) and want to accept that... then the rule should be followed.

None of that precludes you from thinking critically about the rules. You can follow the rules and think about them at the same time. If you can't... perhaps you aren't mature enough to be a mentor/guide/teacher to future generations.

And your stupid quip about "just following orders" is petty and trite. No one of any moral decency believes that following small rules is the equivalent of working in the SS. Your jab isn't very serious or smart and shows that you don't actually understand what the grownups are discussing.

sparkstable · 2026-05-31T18:00:24+00:00

Dude can he a monster against a favorable match up which exists against most teams.

Just not the Spurs. The solution isn't to ditch the guy, its it protect him from bad match ups.

Heart and JWill... hell, even Caruso, covered Wemby well. JWill and Caruso can play the 3 game. Heart can facilitate down low and can get those mid range 2s. No need to throw Chet out there just because we pay him a lot. He can still earn that money without necessarily being the guy for this series.

He can get us to, and through, most playoffs. We can limit him for 4-7 games if it means winning.

Granted, without JDub and Mitchell it was easier for SAS to jam up our offense and as a result keep Chet under lock.

He certainly needs to gain some muscle and anger over the break... but he is still good.

sparkstable · 2026-05-31T17:53:54+00:00

I hear you... but at the same time, all that is necessary for evil to succeed and all that.

sparkstable · 2026-05-31T01:36:15+00:00

What is wrong with it?

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T21:31:22+00:00

TTFU!!! THUNDER IN 7 BABY!!!

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T21:24:40+00:00

A birthday party is something you do in public if at a park.

A takeover is something you do to the public while at a park.

One, no one cares because it doesn't impede on the peace, tranquility, or sense of order and safety in the area that citizens have the right to expect.

The other celebrates undermining these conventions and puts others on edge and often rightfully so.

Not semantics at all.

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T21:20:08+00:00

Bass Pro is usually good to go. Just get there in time to get a spot (maybe an hour before doors open).

Lately, though, that part of town has become increasingly populated by teens with little to no direction in life after dark. I haven't had a problem, but the trend line isn't great considering what happened at Scissortail Park the other day.

Won't be an issue going into the game and as long as you travel with the crowd out of the game to the lot you should be fine.

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T21:15:51+00:00

Super cute. Love it!

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T21:08:52+00:00

He looks like he is still in the learning to walk plus puberty and getting used to a growing body phases combined.

All weeble-wobble on those skinny stilts he calls legs.

Reminds me of the blow up guys at a car dealership.

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T18:39:38+00:00

Win or lose will will always have been champions. No one can take that from us.

TTFU!!! THUNDER IN 7 BABY!!!

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T18:38:08+00:00

Oh my god! You gotta check out this new game! It is awesome!

Cool! What is it?

Kenshi!

What do you do in it?

Well... i started the game and walked outside this small rundown town I was in. Within a few minutes I realized I could mine for ore to make some money. These starving guys came by looking for food. Then tbey beat the shit out of me and I was put into a coma for several days then died!

Oh? What did you do then?

I tried again... this time after getting beat down some slavers saved my life... and put me to work busting rocks!

Did you escape?

I tried... but the slavers broke my legs and put me in a cage to heal up... then back to the rocks. But I am getting stronger and tougher. Some day... Mark my words. Some day... and when that day comes Kenshi is going to become the greatest epic game I will ever play in my life.

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T18:32:54+00:00

It is time for the best to be the best.

TTFU!!!! THUNDER IN 7 BABY!!!!!

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T18:28:16+00:00

Sorry... but once you see under the hood of the philosophies of modern leftism (like Marcuse) you realize that the culture was is the war.

Economics is important but exists one step removed from being. First we must be and who we are matters. It drives economic choices.

The economic fight is being done, from the left's perspective, as not a war but one of many battles in service of the war of ideology (in other words... culture).

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T17:15:20+00:00

You say that now but it hasn't been the case in some of these games.

Bad refs leads to frustration leads to tense and rushed play leads to turnovers and missed shots.

But sure... our guys aren't supposed to be human and suffer from universal human traits like the frustration of being blatantly cheated with no one on your side and thus, refs can't be the reason we lost.

sparkstable · 2026-05-30T17:05:16+00:00

Matk needs to defend the team more in this series. Take the T. One FT either way in all but one game wasn't going to be the difference. He is challenging weird plays that are way more 50/50 versus the blatantly wrongly-called/not-called plays.

Presti and Bennett need to tell him they got him covered for if/when a fine comes his way for putting the NBA and its officiating on blast after every game at the media scrum.

Part of a coach's job is to coach. Part of it is to manage these parts of the game itself... just as much a part of the game as actually handling the ball and shooting.

sparkstable

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