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New Crow Time 🐦‍⬛🦊🌟

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BG3 and enjoying it

Tell you what, when I'm not bothered with hiding from the rockets of some random Ivan Voennoprestupnikov, I'm playing some video games. Call me silly, call me whatever you like, but that right there is an art. Like books, like movies, that speaks it's own language in order to interact with the end-user. And I've been playing some Baldurs Gate 3 too, as well. There's something I must address beforehand: I'm playing TTRPGS for about 6 years and most of that time is dedicated to the cursed D&D 5e, since yeah, that's the most popular and reasonable in terms of bringing new players system. Just right amount of crunch and narrative. Perfectly in the middle (not quite in the middle, but I ain't gonna handle players PF2 handbooks where you can be overwhelmed by choice and complexity of the fighting system), if you ask me. And of course when video game in my system, in my "usual setting" comes out, I need to check it out. And it is what you expect it to be. Usual D&D party rescuing Sword Coast or whatever, but Larian Studios did it. They actually did it in Divinity: Original Sin, but they refined it here. They created the perfect environment where you complete the game with an actual adventuring party of different characters, who differently react to the things that you do. I remember such great cast of characters in Mass Effect 2 and that was exceptional experience for me, one of the best gaming experiences for sure. As a gameplay it's like you expect 5e turn to video game - actions, bonus actions, cheesing with shoving enemies from a cliff, you get the idea. We needed such game long ago and here it is, and it plays so good. Of course you couldn't transfer all official classes from books to playing field, even the things that were done - cheffs kiss. OK the drones hit real fukin' near me, gotta stay safe. In the mean time - enjoy life.

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there is once more an ongoing massive attack by the russian apartment-seeking missiles and I'm just here like "Oh great it's only 7 PM and not 3 AM how nice maybe I'll be able to go to sleep at a reasonable hour"

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So, I played some Doom

Gotta be honest with ya, fine reader, I played original Doom in my wee years. Like I got to it when I was visiting my mom’s workplace whe she can’t leave me alone at house. And there it was, glorious Doom, with all that E1M1, soundtrack, which I couldn’t hear (cause there weren’t any speakers, you see), and I thought “cool, where can I get home play some Quake?” I was from household that played all Quake parts and had it installed, but no Doom, so I hadn’t touched original two parts. My intro into those parts was Doom 3 and still I have some warm feelings to that part. Years went by, I played different FPS games, also regarded Doom as standard bearer, played and had some fun with Doom 2016 and Doom Ethernal, but yeah, not the same. And friends were participating in RAMP 2023 (that’s the initiative for map creation, check it out, that’s a good shiet, you can see people’s passion and soul sometimes) and playing some Plutonia Experiment. Honestly, I’m kind of guy when something in group happening and I kinda like it - I need to try it. So, I’ve tried Plutonia (thanks to @opanasopanasovychopanasenko for help with set up with GZDoom) and I must admit - I’m in awe. I can say that is “the Dark Souls of FPS” and that can be quite accurate description, but where we would be with that? Nowhere, that’s for sure. I can say this - while playing Plutonia it’s the first time in my 23 years of gaming (I’m 26 currently) when I can hear developer’s communication though the gameplay. You see, when you play the current titles - they’re good, but they don’t have some author’s touch.  With Plutonia, proudly developed by Dario and Milo Casali, I can see the vision for what developer’s intended for me to do in some sections of the game in order not to get totally by the enemies. For example, it can be in such details when spawning archvile right in front of you, but if you know that rocket launcher will push him over the ledge - such encounter will become much easier to overcome. The level design was really intriguing - from the labyrinth with archviles to hellish levels with separate platforms and tons of secret, from hard regular levels to  secret levels with some devilish tricks (I say that I must applaud to the decision of spawning five archviles in already cleared areas, after beating 4 cyberdemons). And secrets thruought the level located like with purpose “there is a tough enemies, but here’s your reward - take it, you’ll need it” I got this cozy feeling inside me, when I played Plutonia that everything is like it should be.  Even If I got stuck on some nasty sections, I soon realized - yeah, they designed it in such way, now seek means to beat that. Anyway, can’t recommend it enough to any connoseir of oldschool FPS/boomer shooters if you haven’t tried it yet, it’s so good. Until then, keep calm and donate UAF(https://savelife.in.ua/en/ or any other UA foundation) so I can sprout such thoughts in the future.

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The Clown Show continues unabated on Russian state TV (link):

LOL. Only 80%??

Funnier: immediately after this statement, we're told that the entire second hour of this program will be dedicated to figuring out "how this could have happened."

Yeah. NO IDEA why Ukrainians feel anything but ~Brotherly Love💕~ for Russia. None. One day they all just decided to be mean, Western-shill Russophobes. It's so baffling!

Yep. You know Ukraine: just hatin' on Russia for the fun of it. Also probably they're all Secret Nazis! Or in the CIA! Or brainwashed by Western media! Or all of the above! There's no other possible logical explanation!

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I stayed up reading tumblr until 1:30 am and could hear the air raid alarm go off, indicating that the russian anti-child-hospital missiles are somewhere in my rough vicinity and now the anxiety won't let me sleep again

and this happens at least a couple times a week

people closer to the front line have it worse because a broader spectrum of russian anti-child and anti-old-lady weaponry can reach them, just a veritable smorgasbord of moms-with-strollers-destruction devices

anyway since I guess a lot of you here are against capital punishment, I suggest the Johnny Got His Gun/I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream treatment for the entire russian military. They must be rendered physically inacabable of hurting anyone ever again, and also this should leave them with plenty of time to ponder over the course of action that led them to this point

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Technically true.

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Тест

Швидше за все, сьогодні вночі почнеться ♂️gay party♂️. Будуть ♂️fisting♂️ і стріляти ядерною ♂️semen♂️. Я не знаю, що буде з ♂️nico nico douga♂️, ♂️gym♂️ і зі мною та моїми ♂️slaves♂️.

Тому на всякий випадок ще раз скажу: я дуже радий знайомству з ♂️boss of this gym♂️, ♂️jabroni♂️ та ♂️masters♂️, незважаючи на всі наші ♂️fantasies♂️ та різні ♂️ass♂️.

Бережіть себе.

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If I have to save 1 thing from a burning shithole twitter is rn, it's this video

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i'm outside of my house

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Great map, be sure to check it, if you’re into doom maps and what not

anyway I made and published my first doom map recently.

Making stuff in UDB is pretty fun. So fun, in fact, I started scripting for it without a second thought.

Anyway it's part of this year's RAMP, it's map 154: https://ramp2023.teamouse.net/download.php

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SO HERE I AM

This is my first post here, might as well make it about me.  Who am I? Artem, 26, Ukranian, from Odesa. russia is commiting warcrimes on a hourly basis, it’s a terrorist state and will be punished for all the crimes. Please do not forget that and help Ukraine to fight back and reclaim all temporarily occupied lands.  What you do for a living? Project management, sometimes business development, content management, a bit of everything in IT development processes, tbf.  What do you like?  Wide range of things: - video games and trivia/history around them (Mass Effect 2 is the best game, imo, then Elden Ring, Dark Souls 2, and then you can arrange the library from my Steam/GoG libraries in any order)  - music (specifically metal, but on any given day it swings from melodical tones of sympho rock to absolute shitposting beaty of mashups; not fond of most rap, tho) - history, like as a whole (crazy stuff, like did you know that USSR admited that Chornobyl blew up only when pressed with facts that were got from Swedish stations? And do you know that similar catastrophe were in the late 50-s in Southern Ural, and commies kept it quite? looks like somebody doesn’t know how to boil water) - wrestling (yeah, it’s like predetermined circus-tv series, but it’s entertaining, especially last year and a half was exceptional on storytelling. Bloodline and MJF stuff is exceptional, pump it in my veins) - TTRPG (like me some roleplaying with friends and doing silly voices, but still trying to get how to run campaigns, especially long ones)  What do you want to do here? Dunno, socialize with people, see other people stuff. Just as everyone on social media, I guess? Maybe post some thoughts or views on topics above. Why you expressed that like some kind of questionnaire? Cuz it’s fun this way for me, yeah. Maybe extend this in the future, or no, idc.