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2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

The Sandman is another excellent graphic novel series! I'm with you about no color, music, moving animation, etc. definitely means you have a lot more you have to leave to the imagination but you begin to get a feel on how to read it and fill in color, etc. with your mind over time. I believe the reason it's not colored is because the chapters are drawn weekly, every two weeks, or once a month on typically cheap paper for quick printing so color just isn't in the cards. Sometimes you do get a couple color pages as a bonus when the actual volume compiling a certain set of chapters drops later but even then it's mostly black and white (this is the case with most manga).

Yeah I can see why it would be BW for the weekly release, but I would expect popular mangas to typically have full color releases when they’re popular. But that seems like a rare exception. 
 

I’m mostly aphantasic so imagining the color is kind of a no go for me

13 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Actually @legend has been hinting at a "secret project" he's been working on. I think this might actually be it.

I've told you all before -- I think chat bots and next word prediction is pretty boring. Language grounding to percepts and action is more interesting, but just text itself falls far short of the dream. So no, I wouldn't be doing that  

25 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I highly recommend reading the manga even if you are not a manga reader. I watched the 1997 anime way back when and then went and read the manga and it's probably in my top 5 reads of all time. Either way, that being said, the 2016/2017 continuations aren't bad. The adapted material is too good to make bad. It's just not nearly as good as the manga and the art/animation suffer the most but despite many not liking it I felt it was out of proportion. The material is so good and the anime tries at least so it's still solid but also incomplete since there's even more manga. It's also not an elegant continuation of the 1997 anime since it skips a couple of volumes but works well enough.

 

The Castlevania team even had a Berserk easter egg in season 4, so I know they know about it! It can be done but never will be. 

 

Castlevania Fans Spot Berserk Easter Egg In Season Four Trailer

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The fourth and final season of Castlevania is set to arrive next month, bringing to a close the [...]

 

Maybe I'll give the sequel series a chance some time.

Manga is hard for me to get into because the I feel like this medium of art benefits so much from color! Why they don't have more color mangas is beyond me. If that one aspect was different, I'd probably pick it and a lot of other mangas up.

Granted I don't read many western graphic novels either, but I did finally read The Last Ronin and it's hard to imagine something like that not having color. It would have been so much less. My wife keeps insisting I read Sandman, which I really ought to do...

19 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Very true but the original 1997 anime only adapted the first 13 volumes of the manga. There is so much more good stuff to see animated and I want a full reboot, 2D, cel-animated, hand-drawn series like Castlevania but for Berserk, adapting it accurately. Definitely a tall order and will probably never happen. The two seasons of Berserk we got in 2016/2017 (covering some of the unadapted manga material) was fine but that is not the art style or animation Berserk deserved.

I'll be honest, I haven't bothered with the 2016/2017 continuations because I heard they suck and I don't want to taint it  

I wasn't sure I was going to like the 1997 series as I came to it late (a few years ago maybe?), but it really resonated with me. I can't even explain why. It just works. If they could match its quality and do the "whole" manga it would be great (especially since I don't read manga), but it would be a big lift.

Castlevania is a good comparison though. I would probably trust that team the most if anyone did it, but I suspect they're busy  

4 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

Just adapt Berserk then you cowards.

That's a tall order! Not sure I would want to compete with the original series in a reboot.

3 hours ago, Bacon said:

They are furries and so they must be put down. Dragonborn as well. Orcs and half-orcs as well. Githyanki as well. Aarakocra as well if they are in the game.

You either gotta be human-looking enough or sexy enough, and not a druid, if you want to make it past me.

 

Mass Effect was great in letting me commit genocide against batarians.

 

It's possible you have some issues to work through  

44 minutes ago, Brian said:

I downloaded it on the Ally (79 GBs) and I was met with no controller support in the EA which made me hesitant to jump in at the moment. It runs fairly well considering. I am pushing more graphics because framerate chugs aren’t that big of a deal for a CRPG. 
 

There are too many videos posted so is there one that goes over each class without getting into the nitty gritty? I don’t want a 2 hr video. 

Not sure about videos, but here's my short description:

• Cleric: Tanky healer that also has really good support bufs.
• Fighter: Kill people with weapons -- melee and ranged -- and skills with those weapons.
• Barbarian: Mainly melee DPS fighter. Higher risk and reward.
• Ranger: DPS ranged fighter and usually nature-like skills
• Rogue: Backstab, steal, sneak, etc.
• Warlock: Semi-magic user, and magical weapons. You made a deal with a devil for power. Not super powerful in spells, but has a set of spells it can just cast whenever without resource usage and some other interesting perks.
• Wizard: It's a wizard  Main thing is you can change up which spells you can use regularly, whereas other classes your spell choices are more lasting.
• Sorcerer: Similar to a wizard, but you have to choose your spells on level. In exchange you get sorcery points which let you either cast more spells, or do other special things, like making sure you don't hit friendlies with AoE attacks.
• Bard: Talk your way out of anything, succeed at any non-combat task, gain access to a ton of support bufs and debufs skills and spells.
• Paladin: Strong melee with some magical bufs and weapon bufs.
• Monk: Very speedy martial arts character. Do hit and runs, have lots of attack opportunities. Also get a sort of magic through Ki. No armor though, so try avoid getting hit.
• Druid: Shape shift and/or command animals and some magic spells. You get the idea.

Each class also has subclass options that change the playstyle a bit. E.g., a fighter can actually get access to magic if you choose the Eldritch Knight subclass. That said, the above should give you a high-level understanding.

14 minutes ago, Brian said:

I downloaded it on the Ally (79 GBs) and I was met with no controller support in the EA which made me hesitant to jump in at the moment. It runs fairly well considering. I am pushing more graphics because framerate chugs aren’t that big of a deal for a CRPG. 
 

There are too many videos posted so is there one that goes over each class without getting into the nitty gritty? I don’t want a 2 hr video. 

You don’t want to start now anyway, your EA save will not work on the release. 

7 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

Joe Pesci's monologue the next week hasn't aged well.

 

 

Not only was this awkward for the content, it was terribly delivered!

10 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said:

I need to play Divinity Original Sin 2 sometime soon.

It's a long game, so you might want to wait till after BG3!

Systems driven games are almost always an instant win in this regard, because they're designed for you think out side the box. E.g, Divinity Original Sin 2, TotK, Myth 1/2.

Outside of those, I'll also give the nod to Halo, Doom 2016/Eternal, Vampire Survivors (just obliterate the world), Hollow Knight, and probably a bunch of others I'm not thinking of now.

1 minute ago, johnny said:

i don’t know what any of this means! 

Basically science fiction technology becomes possible if this is solved. Except warp drive. 

I’ve decided that the worst timeline is this result is real, but it’s too late, we’ve already crossed a tipping point for climate change in the worst possible version. 

Fuck yes. First was so good.

DOS:2 ended up with a staggering 93 on Opencritic, sitting at the 12th highest rated game on the site.

It sure looks like BG3 is going to improve on it in every way. So what are people's bets on its OC rating? I'm going to guess 94, with it being dragged down by people who just don't like CRPGs.

17 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Highly doubtful that silicon could be used as a building block for naturally occurring life. It simply can’t do what carbon can do well and easily: create complex, strong, and varied long chains with itself and other nonmetals(which aren’t oxygen, which silicon fucking loves). It’s not a matter of “what if they have different biology?!?”. Silican’t do that basic chemical stuff. 

Yeah that would have been my guess as well, but my chemistry isn't good enough for me to confidently rule it out  

My estimate of this being real has gone from very low to very very low  

However, I'm still waiting for the nail in the coffin of someone reproducing and providing better data to show it's not what they thought, or completely failing to reproduce altogether!

Fortunately, the procedure is pretty straightforward so we may have a definitive answer by the end of this week.

42 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Half of this board is really taking an anthropomorphic view of aliens, and they must understand and manipulate physics like humanity understands and manipulates physics. 

 

Further, if there are aliens out there, there is no guarantee they even fit within our understanding of how life (on earth) functions.  Things like being carbon-based, having DNA, or even utilizing oxygen or water may not be necessary for certain types of life that developed elsewhere in the universe.

If I were to put on my speculation hat, I would guess that the majority of complex alien life is carbon based with maybe silicon based as a second, excluding aliens that live in a completely unknown aspect of the universe. Carbon is just too fucking chemically useful to not be the standard basis. It's not a fluke that life on earth is carbon based, even if you knew nothing else about earth's composition.

Or at least that's for the origins of the alien life. If we're talking about sophisticated aliens, I have no doubt they completely re-engineered themselves.

1 hour ago, DarkStar189 said:

This was from 2 years ago but involves some of the same people today. 2 jets with 4 people total all seeing the same unexplainable thing. A lot of people here dismissing the idea but stories like this have to make you wonder.  

 

I wonder about aliens fairly regularly. Stories like these though are not really cause for it though  

FWIW, I actively wish this were true. But the history of garbage "evidence" for these claims and my awareness of peoples general cognitive failings makes me disinclined to think this time they'll have something meaningful  

8 minutes ago, Uaarkson said:

Objects flying at supersonic speeds with no thermal propulsion trail? Objects starting and stopping on a dime or making perfect 90 degree turns? Disappearing into the water? Flying out of view and then showing back up on radar 60 miles away? I’m not saying any of this actually happened or that it wasn’t some kind of sensor malfunction, but it is at least interesting.

You're conflating interpretations with observations.

Just now, Bacon said:

LOL I hadn't even thought of that. I just thought it was a bunch of nerds picking a charisma class since they have none IRL. I wasn't thinking of actual in-game systems.

Yeah the persuasion skill is already a big deal in 5e, and I have no doubt Larian is going give lots of fun dialog opportunities for those with the skill!

lol You guys are starting sound like us downers  

59 minutes ago, Bacon said:

I'm surprised to see paladin that high cuz the "holy knight" class is giga lame like 90% of the time.

Paladins in 5e are really powerful, even more so if you have a support character to buf them. At the end of my last TT campaign I played a level 20 Bard giving Foresight to my friend who was a level 20 Vengeance Paladin and he could basically 1 shot dragons. On top of that, people probably want charisma characters for dialog.

1 hour ago, TheLeon said:

Is it a Dexter situation? You’re a Dark Urge Monk that only kills other Dark Urge characters? 

Only if there is a lumberjack subclass