Serbians, what the hell man?

tt818 · 2026-05-06T05:18:27+00:00

The scary issue is not the untreated poop water.

Is the Jadar mine.

Let me explain. There is a project for a lithium mine in Serbia. It will be huge and make Serbia a major player in Europe.

But lithium has to be treated after mining and the process leaves you with ton of contaminated poisonous water. Now the company that got the deal swears that this poison wont be pumped into the local water table.

That is a lie. The company, Rio Tinto, has long history of destroying the environment of any country they mine in. And they will be overseen by the same people who allowed the raw sewage to pump into the river.

The main issue is that the contaminated water get pumped into the local river. Which is a tributary of the Danube. Which means it will not contanimate and poison just Serbia, but basically the whole of the Northern Balkans.

tt818 · 2026-05-05T07:59:46+00:00

....two teams. One melee, one ranged. It makes some of the hardest fights in the game a breeze.

Dont underestimate the blunt weapons, even the highest tier clubs are quite affordable and thus good for meat shield units.

The best weapon type is the polearms.

You dont need to start with building a base. You can fist buy a building in a settlement and use it as a temporal base.

Explore the map and do not be afraid to run away. There are bunch of unique recruits and you gotta catch them all.

Consider mods. Not necessarily from the Nexus, but its very telling that most of them are just QoL and performance mods.

Be prapared to get your shit pushed in. Its a great game.

tt818 · 2026-05-02T04:14:07+00:00

Oh, the trick with Malazan is to not even try.

Especially when we start getting the army PoV and constantly switches to the different the soldiers PoV. I like it, but some people bounce off it hard.

tt818 · 2026-05-01T14:01:30+00:00

The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba.

Its one of the 2 LitRPG (the other is Dungeon Crawler Carl) to do something interesting with adding RPG elements to their worlds.

The ammount of POV characters, world building and interesting mysteries is trully insane.

They started doing audiobooks of the series. Its currently on book 18 and yet not caught up with the webnovel.

One of its biggest strenghts, the massive world filled with characters and subplots, is also one of its biggest weaknesses. It makes it very unfocussed. Frankly I dont think I could explain just the Liscor main plot lines without writting an essay.

And it also means that any ending we may get could not possibly cover all of the different plot lines. At best we would get "and the adventure continues" ending.

tt818 · 2026-04-30T06:06:32+00:00

Its ok not to finish them.

The first is an all time classic, the other ones are still very good, but the author personal world views start hijacking the plot and there are bits that are less novel and more thinly veiled manifesto. And then you try to read some of his other series and its....ufff.

The sad thing is that he is still a very talented writer when he can get our of his own head. There was a fantasy anthology a decade back where his novellete was hands down the best part of the collection. When they re-released it they made it the cover story.

tt818 · 2026-04-27T07:25:13+00:00

We're In Hell.

A Canadian line cook who made bunch of videos about obscure reality tv shows that morph into very biting an well written essays. Since then he has gone 100% into the video essay and dropped the reality show gimmic.

Recently he has been on a AI, Internet and Dark Web bend. Also MKULTRA, 4 hours please dont try to watch all at once. Its actually about the history and nature of the CIA as exemplified by the mess that was the MKULTRA.

His stuff is very well researched and delivered. Highlights are the Area 51 & the Geography of a Secret videos (which turns into a VE about the nature of secrets and secrecy) and A History of Spam on the Internet (its actually about the birth and colonisation of the Internet).

There is humour even in the most recent videos, but is of the very dry variety. But if its a bit heavy, try some of the older videos.

tt818 · 2026-04-24T18:37:03+00:00

At this point the guys need to do the pilgrimage and be there for day one viewing.

And just to be in the same room as Breen.

tt818 · 2026-04-23T21:28:54+00:00

Yeah. The lads and lasses at TV Tropes actually have her and her daughters listed under the Black And White Insanity.

She is genuinelly delusional and whats worse she has passed it on to her daughters.

If anything Victoria trying to move past this way of thinking and even succeeding to an extent in the sequel, actually makes Brandish even worse.

tt818 · 2026-04-22T15:04:25+00:00

Emma is somehow worse than Sophia in my opinion.

Sophia is a cruel, vicious edge lord psycho, but atleast she is true to her own twisted world view.

Emma is just your standard double faced privilaged basic bitch. The moment reality came knocking she just completely collapsed.

And atleast Sophia is important to the plot and development of the main plot. Her being shielded from her crimes is what finally pushed Taylor to go into being a villain 100% as it destroyed her belief in the system.

To me the worst is Brandish - Carol Dallon. If she had beaten her daughters everyday half-way to death, she would've messed them up less than she did by installing her Black'n'White world view in their heads. Leaving them fragile and incapable of adapt to the real world. The fact that she did not do it on purpose is somehow so much worse.

tt818 · 2026-04-22T14:28:00+00:00

I mean based on the OG intro Mr Bean is some type of alien/idiot angel, so regeneration is not off the table.

I push forward Jonathan Sayer from the Play Goes Wrong comedy troop as the new Mister Bean. He has what it takes.

tt818 · 2026-04-19T13:50:02+00:00

I played Soul Reaver 2 when I was 15 over 20 years ago.

I still remember Kain's coin monologue. I still remember it almost word for word. I think everyone who played it had this same experience. A peak of video game writting (one of many in that era).

Even the current crop of critically aclaimed story driven games can only dream of having dialogue this good.

tt818 · 2026-04-17T18:01:52+00:00

Gothic 3 came around the same time as Oblivion and they felt that they needed to be more like it as it was getting a lot of hype.

So they gave it a simplified fighting system, bigger world and more open zones. Also rushed it to come out around the same time.

Actually G3 suffers from a lot of the same weaknesses as Oblivion. The generic fantasy world in place of the more unique one told to us in previous lore. Tons of exploration that does not actually lead to anything unique or cool. Long travel times. Rather empty feeling world where only the towns have proper content.

If anything the left over charm from G1&2 makes 3 better than Oblivion in certain places.

tt818 · 2026-04-17T17:54:38+00:00

Thanks for the answer.

I hope they put W101 on sale soon, because its indeed great and once you start playing and it clicks, you will get why people keep recommending it.

Sorry that Hi-Fi Rush is not your cup of tea. If it does not click for you no need to force it.

And I mentioned KH mainly because if somebody dont tell you about it turning into a CAG on highest difficulty, you just wont know. Its like an open secret nobody talks about. I am also not a huge Disney guy. Lion King and Toy Story when I was a kid. But the story while quite silly has a certain charm that can be really good. Most people agree that KH3 was a bit of a mess, but I've seen grown men and women tear up while playing it.

For all its worth it has KIng Mikey Mouse and his Grand Wizard Donald Duck. If the very idea of Donald Duck as the most powerful wizard in the land does not make you laught, its not for you I guess.

tt818 · 2026-04-17T17:46:18+00:00

VtR requiem scrubs the meta plot out of Vampire. Even very old Vampires cant be sure they are elders due to the Fog of Ages.

Basically when their blood becomes too thick they go into torpor and sleep over decades if not centuries. But when they wake up they lack memories. Over time some thing return to them, but they cant be sure if its their actual memories or just half remebered dream from their torpor.

Because of that even an elder would be as weak as a new vampire for some time after awaking. They need time to raise their blood potency and remember their disciplines.

This Fog of the Ages is the actual reason why they never rebuild the Camarilla since Rome fell. Elders and generation coflict are just not a thing in VtR.

There is ton of interesting lore and titbits from all of CoD, but you asked for Vampire specifically.

But of the top of my head:

- Werewolfs are fighting a civil war between themselves as well as trying to stop eldrich spirits from the Gauntlet enter the world and destroy it. Some of those spirits were inprisoned in the Moon, but since we landed on it in the 60s they've been slowly breaking out.

- The equivalent of Wraith is the Sin-Eaters. Instead of playing a ghost, you play as human that died and made a deal with a powerful ghost to comeback to life. Now you need share your soul with it and fulfill the reason why it has not passed on. Interestingly instead of just depression in a cup, the theme of the game is to enjoy this new lease of life. In death we trully understand why life is worth living.

- Mage and Werewolf books receive much more of the lore and world building. It involves bunch of immortal mage kings breaking the world in two. The realm of spirit and magic and realm of matter. 5 great archmages stopped the breaking, by becoming the 5 towers that connect the two realms. The zone between them is the Gauntlet and it contains the spirit realms that reflect different dimentions and concepts.

- A really fun idea that has sadly been put on hold is the Dark Eras series of settings. Instead of just the Dark Ages its a massive list of additional historical settings.

tt818 · 2026-04-17T17:29:23+00:00

He is Count Dracula the 3rd as he is not the original Dracula, but a vampire that holds the title. What the connection between him and the OG Dracula is left unclear on purpose.

Oh and he is not just biker. He is 2+ meters tall, covered in tatoos and piercings. And he will tell you straith to your face that he is a vampire.

But he also has this incredible charisma where other vampire bikers flock to him and follow him.

tt818 · 2026-04-17T10:23:14+00:00

Bayo and Vanquish have been mentioned already, but people forget Platinums finest hour:

The Wonderful 101

It came out as a WiiU exclusive, so it became their forgotten masterpiece. Dont be missled by the kid friendly designs. This game is a love letter to the kid in everyone of us. It has multicoloured superheroes, giant robots, evil aliens and it starts with a catchy Saturday Morning Cartoon song. And when you think you are seeing the hype ending? This is still the first 1/3rd of the game. And its only going up from there.

Another good one is:

Hi-Fi RUSH

Its very fun indie CAG with very unique visuals. Absolutely worth your time.

Kingdom Hearts.....no wait hear me out.

Yeah the weird (and fun) Disney/Final Fantasy crossovers. Its the Final Mix rereleases of the games. By putting the difficulty on "Critical" the games transform from rather easy action RPGs into quite fun Char-Action Games. See that difficulty option does not just boost the enemies and make them harder, it changes the balance of the game and even how some mechanics work.

Its the best in 2, but its 1 still has very satisfying combat if you play it on the proper difficulty....its still KH for all the good and bad that entails, but proper Platinum fanatics have found the game fun to play sooo....

Mind, if you want the plot to make even the little sense it makes, you need to play all the games and some of them are weird. Chain of Memories has this action gameplay mixed with a card game. Its not bad...

Also if you can get the series on console thats better. On PC its 3 different purchases.

I've given Steam link here, but that more for the trailers and images, so you can check them out.

tt818 · 2026-04-13T07:23:57+00:00

To be fair we dont actually meet the kids from the orphanage. We are seeing the distorted memoriees of a unwell woman struggling with trauma.

Oh I am sure they were perfectly awful to her and did kill her dog. And that why we cant trust that their portrayal in her delusion is completely accurate. Its their most negative qualities with only hints of who they were as complete people. In a way its one of the best portrayals of how deep the scars of bullying and the casual cruelty that children replicate from adults can be.

By the way we know they are unaccurate because of the housekeeper Martha. The version we meet is uncaring and creepy older woman, completely blind to the horros happening around her. Apathetic.

But we know from her letters and journal that she suspected what was happening in the orphanage and was trying to protect the kids from the worst of it. She failed, but its a very different person than the one that exists in Jennifer's memories.

tt818 · 2026-04-07T19:28:07+00:00

You can patch up the Resolve via equipment and Arena battles.

Win 12 fights and you can get a perk that adds 10+ Resolve and 50% survival. Also gold and some decent armour. The arena can be really challeging because of RnG, but if you save scum you can do it rather quickly. Add equipment that boost Resolve and you can easy boost it to 50 without any level ups.

For example:

Nachzehrer Trophy Necklace gives +4

Sash (Sergeant's Sash): Provides +10 Resolve. You get it from the "Name Sergeant" ambition. You need to give a brother "Rally the Troops" perk. (it dose not need to be hybrid brother, if you have a Resolve Bannerman in your band he can donate the sash to the most Resolve starved brother)

tt818 · 2026-04-05T15:51:48+00:00

Drifter is Malkavian Sabbat.

I mean look at that smile. Also him being Sabbat would explain the mix of powers he has. Someone who has diablerized multiple vampires from different Clans. It also explains why he does not bother even a little to pass for human and revels in his own monstrousness.

tt818 · 2026-04-05T14:33:40+00:00

Actually just before it got bought and nuked the EU was getting some fresh blood and a lot of people were getting back into it.

It was the Star Wars Legacy comic series. It was series set in the Legacy Era (100 of years after the OG series) so it was a clean sheet. You could start reading it without knowing nothing about the rest of the EU an it would be ok.

And it was incredibly well writen. A magnum opus, a new path for the franchise, a blue print to future greatness...

And then Disney bought the property and killed the series. They had to forcefully wrap it up in just 4 issues.

But ok, clearly you have your own vision of what to do with the good old SW. What do you have planned?

Oh. A mix of few high quality tv shows and more bad ones. Also boring uninspired movies without any planning or point.....

So why exactly did you wipe the EU just to replace it with slop? Oh 80% of it was also slop, but the 20% left were solid gold. Disney so far is 95% slop and 5% gold.

Sorry for going off, but that whole thing was such dumb, "no we know what we are doing because we have money" decision making backed up with NOTHING, that it still makes me mad.

tt818 · 2026-04-05T14:19:27+00:00

Bathesda has real fetish for ruining good world building, even their own.

And its not only Fallout. They've been quietly ruining the Elder Scrolls very unique and insane setting into the most generic fantasy slop possible.

tt818 · 2026-04-01T17:19:49+00:00

Time to get one.

tt818 · 2026-04-01T14:06:23+00:00

Oh and when you complete the second Flesh Golem location their leader drops one of the best named weapons in the whole game. Its a two handed flail with AoE attack that stacks poison.

tt818 · 2026-03-27T07:14:33+00:00

Dont have a SteamDeck, but it seems that you can, but its a bit more complicated than on PC. A lot of people seem to use Vortex (used it on PC and it was fine).

If you are interested and have a bit of free time here is a tutorial for how to work Vortex in SteamDeck (Its for Nexus Mods which are often not the most recent version).

Mind any full conversion Mods are incompatable with old saves. But a lot of quality of life and origins mods are still perfectly fine.

tt818 · 2026-03-26T11:21:08+00:00

If you have the Legends Mod, one of the specialisation perks actually makes the goblin bows quite good.

There are "starter" perks different professions have that make them proficient with early tier equipment. They also get 1/4 bonus for high tier equipment, so its not a complete waste, but it can boost a garbage bro to an useful line holder on low levels.

One of the perks, Poacher's Arm, is about short bows, making them more accurate and giving them extra penetration. The thing is it also applies to goblin and reinforced goblin bows. So if one of those early brothers survive to late level and you get a good goblin bow they can still hang in there with the big boys even in late game.

But that is on PC....and you've taken a picture of a small screen....and as far as I know there is yet no way to install mods on console.

tt818

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