In other news, decided to invade Russia from the east in HoI 4.
Regrets were had…
oh honey, no
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Yup. But atleast I manage to gain a foothold on one island with an airbase and port, and i have sea-mastery over the comintern, so i can ferry over troops without problem. Supplying them on land is the problem though.
However, after it’s defeat, Japan went democratic, then communist and joined the Comintern too, so i will first try and invade them, conquer them, then perhaps try and naval invade vladivostok.
don’t forget: don’t siege leningrad, just zerg rush it immediately
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I should’ve come from the west 
I genuinely feel like, despite being such a huge part of the game, some key Elden Ring devs did NOT like melee players.
Whoever designed the Astel fight?
Screw you, in particular. Latena is MVP, girl has brought down that overgrown grub and Ezykkes too.
Edit: like, SOMEONE explain to me how you are expected to get out of the ‘LMAO AOE’ that Astel can thrown down in, like, a second?
The multi ringed one?
Perfect roll.
The damn game doesn’t even NORMAL roll a percentage of the time when I hit the damn button!
Just give yourself enough room and roll over the rings.
If not, you need watch his hand do the que for it and just back away from him.
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The multi-ring one wasn’t too bad.
The ‘lol I turned off gravity’ grab is just utter 
though.
I just get fed up with how ALL the enemies seem to be able to move/attack/react super fast, can get out of range so easily, have just too much poise, and STILL hit like absolute trucks.
Meanwhile, player characters move like they’re going through treacle (if they even move at all - input queue KEEPS being jank when you really need it to not be) and even though I now need x6 smithing stone (8) for my next weapon upgrade, and have 49 Str, there’s so much of the ‘level appropriate’ enemies that just shrug off so much 
Edit: Basically, Im getting ready for the DLC to annihilate me 
The initial bust where he turns off gravity is rollable, then you need to get out before he drops the rocks.
I mostly play faith/melee hybrid builds, I need to be pretty dang close to most the action.
Nopt logged into WoW for a few days so Harrika’s welcome back present was dropping the mount;
Just need the court sinrunner and Denaja is one happy Darkfallen.
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My condolences.
I absolutely despise this.
The cynic will tell you that all fantasy races, no matter how alien in appearance from regular humans, are ultimately human creations and thus have human qualities in them, so it’s not an issue if you just make a race that is literally humans but with cat/bunny ears or elf ears in your setting.
I on the other hand love evolution and exploring different morphologies of species. What if for example a primarily flying species developed their primary muscles (arms) to use as legs, and their secondary appendages (legs) for fine motor activities, like using tools?
And then you have to consider why and how a species has evolved these specific adaptations, what mass extinctions they may or may not have overcome in the past that aided in that selective pressure, why would intelligence emerge in them in the first place, what kind of intelligence is it (e.g. collective like with hive snimals like ants and bees or societal / cognitive like with elephants and humans).
And also, how everything eventually turns into a crab.
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Use cavalry. Straight up, old timey cavalry. No terrain penalty. The khans were right.
I maintain it’s them being titan creations, either sculpted or mutated into their image by their magic which is also why pandaren are bipedal and draenei walk upright.
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That is inevitable. Crab is love, Crab is life, Crab is the end of all evolution
Did you ever get far enough in to Malazan to encounter the Ke’chain Che’mall? Speaking of alternate peoples to humans.
I have been reading a bit of deadhouse gates just yesterday actually. I am about a hundred pages in, at the part where Mappo and Icarium are in the desert.
Erikson’s writing style is very ambigious. You have to imagine a lot of what is going on by yourself as he doesn’t really explain for example in combat scenes how somebody is cut down, let alone how the magic works or where is it from.
But no I have not gotten to that revelation yet. Fiddler and Paran are by far the best part of the books so far.
This comes through the books; there’s a bit of direct telling and connecting the dots. You’re given a treadmill at full speed and that’s that. Deadhouse is a really strong book, let it build.
But yeah Fiddler is a strong character. Felisin is a favourite personally too.