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I have been doing Anime Expo wrong, apparently!

I'm really annoyed that they never fixed the bug where detail columns (and thus their related sorting options) disappear from the inventory sometimes and you can only get them back by relaunching the game. Also the one where adding items to containers makes them disappear in the menu and the only way to get them back is to press the "take all" button.

It changed a good bit actually. You always gain 4 points in a stat (other than Luck) when you choose to level it, instead of it depending on how many related skills you raised since your last level. Fatigue is no longer part of the melee damage calculation, which means you can spam attacks without reducing your damage, but magic effects that raise your maximum Fatigue no longer give a damage bonus. Agility no longer affects your chance to be flinched when hit. The way difficulty settings are implemented changed from a slider to four set difficulties, and a bunch of enemies that were really tanky or had damage that was stronger than expected for their tier got nerfed. Also the new combat animations affect attack timing and weapon reach. There's definitely some other stuff I'm forgetting, too.

I checked it out! My character's name is Alpaca, I settled just across the road from Whitemere. It seems neat, I played to level 11 or so. Some thoughts in no particular order:

There's an achievement for sleeping in my own bed, but my bed is a solid tile and pressing E on it just says "This is a landmark," so I don't know how I'm supposed to sleep in it.

There are a couple of things related to timing where feedback could be clearer: first, if you try to gather resources too quickly, it says "gate." It would be great if the resource-gathering-cooldown was visible on screen. Second, when you hold towards an enemy, the weapon swinging animation plays rapidly. It would be nice if it only played when you actually swing, based on your weapon cooldown.

The dialog is mostly written by an LLM, yeah? This is fine for most of the quest NPCs because their dialog isn't super relevant (although it occasionally implies something weird, like an NPC who is labeled as the Elder saying "the elder trusts you and so do I" after you do their quest to kill 4 wolves) but in some cases it's really noticeable: for example, the hermit who gives the quests to kill the bosses under the hedge maze has a full dialog tree, so it's kind of annoying that he talks in riddles like an AI Dungeon NPC. (Apologies if you wrote his dialog yourself and it's intentional.)

The copper greatsword has a sprite (at least when held by the dwarf) that looks more like dual wielding daggers.

Overall I like it! It appeals to my desire to grind skills and craft stuff, sort of scratches the same itch as Runescape.

All the people I know who smoke are hot as fuck, though.

I, for one, welcome our new snake ~~overlords~~ management!

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Some of us have been playing it since before it was popular with children!

One could argue that “Supergirl” was set up for failure given the way the character was introduced into the DC Universe in Gunn’s “Superman”: drunkenly stumbling into the Fortress of Solitude looking for her dog Krypto in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo.

I actually thought this scene was really funny and was looking forward to her movie; I thought it could be a comedy, like maybe she goes on a super-bender and hijinks ensue. Then the trailer dropped and it kind of seemed like it explained the whole movie, or enough that I could fill in the blanks without actually seeing it, and it looked like yet another standard superhero movie. It's also the second movie in a row where Krypto gets in trouble, and I cannot stress enough how much I do not want to see a movie where the dog is in mortal peril.

I love TOME! I have all the DLC on Steam so I'm not sure about the website linking thing. The Doombringer class from Ashes of Urh'Rok is my favorite.

This is a great one! I'm terrible at it but I love trying out all the different equipment.