The person in your picture tried her hand at cosplaying, and kudos to her for the effort, but the female barbarian looks a lot more muscular. She also doesn't have the gigantic breasts, which makes sense since you don't frequently see really muscular women with large amounts of fatty tissue on their chest.

Oh yeah, that's it exactly. The gamble makes it interesting. Saw a video a while back of someone who got wiped out after over a hundred hours. Their friends were watching, and everything went dead silent. No restart recovery, everything they did was gone.

Funny you mention that. Last time I played, the difficulty level went from normal, to hard, to expert, to master, to 5 levels of torment. Now, there are ten levels of torment.

Well, if you don't mind chewing your keyboard in frustration.... And I can imagine it being almost sickeningly exciting, particularly as you near the end. But over that potential time span it just seems to be inviting annoyance.

Was that 100+ hours for nothing on YouTube?

The big problem I noticed is that monsters get more and more powers the higher the difficulty level.
That makes sense, of course, but the odds of them getting the right combo of random abilities that can pin you down so you can't avoid being killed goes up more and more.

No, not the whole thing. Think they were streaming it initially, but someone took the footage of the death, edited that into its own piece, then posted it as a video.

Well, its something to consider, but if the game has any bugs or anything which feels unfair and you get dumped, have some kind of antidote to hand.

I just looked at some YouTube fails and it looks pretty brutal.

And if you come up against any dogs, use a hand grenade. Which oddly blew their fur off as well (one grenade for 5-6 dogs)... That's alternate reality for you.

Laughing hard at some of the ones I'm watching. Current favorite is some dumbshit who's in the middle of an active battlefield, stuffing their face, having a drink, taking their sweet time and not paying attention while monsters take their character apart. Then they finally look and start screaming "What the fuck happened!?!?!" Hilarious.

Either those dogs were very close together, or that's one highly effective grenade.

There is a very pertinent argument which says computer games force you to think, plan a successful strategy, that they're good for your mind. Clearly some skulls are too impenetrable for this to happen.

The dogs were in a pack around a bend. A few tries before the grenade they'd see me and come running, and not even my meanest weapon would shoot them down before I became dog food. The I timed it so when they knew I was there I lobbed the grenade at the curve (they weren't visible) and headed back the way I came. The barking started and then there was a bang and then nothing. Very satisfying :-)

I think my last message got eaten - or the new page delay bug has come out to play.

Anyway, its nearly 6am and I'm starting to doze, so I'll see you later. Good luck with that hardcore run if you attack it :-)

Good morning.

Did anyone else have a great weekend?

Good morning everyone :)

Hope you're all doing fine.

Ah! You beat me! I was just about to come in and do my lonely boy dance :-p

Good morning :-)

Good morning, dear thread !
We're all frozen here... I hope you're all doing good or at least decently
**Big warm hugs with coffee**

Good morning, people of the thread!

Just a quick reminder that it is Fearful's birthday this week, on the 26th, and there are one or two gifts still available for her if you would like to see the birthday list.

And it is Mr Endre's birthday on the 2nd of December, and I now how his birthday list. So if you would like to get a little something for Endre, please let me know and I will send you a copy of his birthday wishlist.

As always, thank you to everyone that takes part and gives some gifts, you are all awesome!

*big hugs*

It's a party! All the young dudes are here \o/
Good morning, Wings! Sorry about the freezing :-(
**Extra big, extra warm, extra tight, antifreeze hug**

The Account tab is back for me...yay :D

Hihi :D
Good morning Agent *big hug*
How are you?

Good morning Owl *big warm return hug*
Frozen here as well....and there's even some snow left here too..
I'm okay - doing a bit better than the last days but still not entirely fine again...
How are you?
Good morning DD *big hug*
How are you today?

Good morning, Owl, Agent, and ELT!

I am good, thank you. I had a lovely day yesterday once my partner got home, so even my health won't get me down at the moment. :-)

Glad to hear you are a little better, fingers crossed you will recover fully soon.

*gives Owl a big warming blanket*

It has been sub-zero temperatures here, but still no decent snow that has settled yet.

*big warming hug*

That's great. Really glad to hear that :)

Thank you. As long as the weather plays fair in the next days that shouldn't be a huge problem :)