Omg. You’re beautiful. Were you able to start HRT in high school? Sorry if that’s invasive, I understand if you’d rather not divulge.

What property is this?

Because he’s real???

Piss after jacking off, anon.

Yeah, that got me at first, too. It’s pretty directly pulled from the TTRPG. Just pick a combat skill + whatever you think you’d like to do and you’re golden. FYI, Tremere has magic that heals you and fills your blood meter. Great clan for a first playthrough.

Steam and Protontricks and that’s it.

Perhaps I should explore some alternatives, just to make sure my bases are covered, but I can play all I want to play with those tools.

Sorry if that’s not the response you were seeking. Do you not use Steam?

That Rik Schaeffer soundtrack is fucking irreplaceable. VTMB oozes atmosphere from its every crevice.

This game also has a stacked voice cast. Dee Bradley Baker, J. Grant Albrecht, Grey DeLisle, John DiMaggio, Steve Blum. If you grew up in the 2000s, you’re going to hear the voices of your childhood.

I think that what I adore about VTMB is how it’s designed to let you play the game with extreme variance depending on your build. I love New Vegas, but if you want to get into a place, you’re either talking your way in or shooting your way in. VTMB lets me complete objectives by finding ventilation systems to crawl through and hacking terminals to get the info I need rather than speaking to or fighting any person. This blend of RPG and imsim elements really scratches that itch for me.

Really, that’s just an indicator of how this game is designed to be Roleplaying-forward. If you play as an ugly bastard monster man, you better get ready for everyone to treat you as such. Luckily, the devs thought of that, so you can also complete most everything as if you were an ugly bastard monster man.

This all falls apart a bit in the end. The game is built upon the Source engine, so combat is really fun. With that being the case, I guess they didn’t have too many issues with making the final stretch of missions a LOT of combat. I don’t think the game falls apart there, per se, but I could definitely see someone not speccing for combat and then suffering the consequences late game.

But that said, the side quests in this game! Holy shit! Whether it’s becoming a bounty hunter, saving people with your vampire blood, or taking out vampire-hunting strippers, this game is memorable as fuck.

Play it. I had not played a game that felt similar to VTMB until the recent release of The Outer Worlds 2, which has that same RPG/imsim design to it. Gems like this are rare, and you’re doing yourself a disservice if you never take them off the shelf and play.

I really love CachyOS. It’s so fast. I’ve been seeing lots of reports of performance issues in The Outer Worlds 2, and I’ve gotta say I’m not experiencing any of that.

Just make sure you familiarize yourself with some of the quirks of Arch, such as why you might want to use a program like Timeshift for backups, or the risks of the AUR.

Also, get a flash drive and back up your important files, just in case. I have done full system upgrades every time I upgrade, and I haven’t had issues with my system yet. But with Arch, you gotta be careful.

Pop!_OS and CachyOS are the two I always recommend for people with nVidia. The best option for Linux, quite frankly, is to switch to AMD. However, both of those should be preconfigured for your GPU. I’ve been loving CachyOS, and my friend with nVidia has been too.

I was Ms. Frizzle this year! She’s one of my heroes.

I remember watching the credits roll on my first viewing of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and thinking, “It really was.”

Yeah, that’s the point. Their fart is about to be so powerful that the laws of aerodynamics take a backseat.

Badace shirt on that fellaon the right there

Got me a movie, I want you to know

Slicin’ up eyeballs, I want you to know

Girlie so groovy, I want you to know

Don’t know about you

BURNINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE

I suppose weakening Klan membership at the time of release would be more accurate, I’ll add it to the post

What’s really great about that comic is it’s a loose adaptation of a 1946 episode of the Adventures of Superman radio show called “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” wherein Superman also takes on the Klan.

Klan membership went down after the broadcast aired, partially because fathers couldn’t really explain to their kids why Superman wanted to fight the Klan.

It’s credited pretty heavily with weakening Klan membership at the time of release, and it’s on YouTube.

This is kinda unrelated, but you were mentioning some of the identity moments in the comic. I really appreciated how they did some similar commentary in the new movie as well and, since I had never seen those themes focused on in Superman, I did some research into the history of immigration commentary in Superman.

Anyway, that’s how I found out there’s an adaptation from the 1980s where the life pod carrying Superman actually just contains DNA which it then assembles into Superman, all so Superman can be an American-born citizen. The 80s were one of the decades of all time.

Fuck, I’m going to have to wait to watch this one.

Eddy has always impressed me with how in-depth his journalism can be on the most minute topics. His video where he ate at every Rainforest Café was probably the most coverage that chain has had in years, and his piece on ghost kitchens is like the only source you need to understand that bullfuckery.

That is to say, I’m sure he really went hard with the research for this one. Would not surprise me if he isolated himself with ChatGPT for a week.

You don’t understand, I’m scouring the internet for obscure archives of videos on how to manually uninstall Windows 11 components with the command line because Linux is just too hard to learn!