Either of the spellbook merging options are just crazy powerful. Caster lich and caster angel turn you into a WMD basically instantly. Really fun.
Levels 1-5 in 3.5 and PF1 campaigns just suck. You can't do anything fun, and it's just everyone auto-attacking until someone gets lucky. Level 17+ is rocket tag, but the middle there is compared to how dumbed down 5E feels.
Yeah, Wrath actually does a pretty good job ratcheting up the difficulty and sense of desperation gradually over the first bit of the game, throwing you against gradually header and harder encounters until just before it seems like it's about to become impossible, and then your mythic power comes online and you get somewhere between a significant and absolutely bonkers power spike. The encounter near the wardstones where you're up against like a bunch of CR 18s at level 6 and then go sparkly and just rip them apart is very satisfying.
Kingmaker has some crazy difficulty spikes that it just does not telegraph at all (that solo encounter with Nyrissa that I think you're talking about is a notable one), and unless you're pretty comfortable with Pathfinder or at least D&D 3.5 it's very easy to build a really bad character. Mythic powers in Wrath make it a lot more forgiving even though the encounters are technically a lot "harder" in terms of CR.
Owlcat games slap in general. Kingmaker, WotR, and Rogue Trader were all fun as hell.
Oh yes. 1E, to be exact. There are some tweaks, but it's closer to RAW than BG3 is to D&D 5E RAW. This is a double edged sword, as PF 1E is insanely complex if you aren't really familiar with it, so while you can make some crazy powerful builds if you know what you're doing, it's also much easier to totally ruin your character than it is in BG3. The game will happily let you make absolutely terrible choices with basically no warning, and the first act in particular can be hard.
The best part is she absolutely will not be able to help herself, and won't comply. I hope Imane takes all her money.
BRUNO'S COUNTRY CLUB LLC
lmao
is this where they put the piggies up?
When they're in town, yeah (it's the motel in Gerlach). We also have to build, staff, and maintain a full compound on playa for them to use, complete with a 24 hour/day on-call chef. It's so fucking insane.
100% agree on the general criticism of non-profits. Burning Man isn't uniquely bad, but it's still a dog shit model for doing things.
Here's the 2022 Form 990: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/452638273/202313179349309051/full. Just permitting and fees are at about $4.5 million. Most of the stuff that falls under "wages" is also not to BMP employees, but rather to law enforcement, emergency services (we also run a full service hospital that does not change for any services), airport, and sanitation (loooots of porto-potty servicing). The costs on all those things has gone up since 2022 also; there's been an ongoing lawsuit between the org and the Federal government for charging us so much with basically no explanation.
This will be my 20th year going, and I'm in a leadership position on the volunteer side of things. I definitely have a lot of criticism of the organization (and the event), but financial mismanagement isn't really one of them. They pay the executive staff on the low side of comparably sized 501c3 orgs, especially given the office location in SF. I think Marian is pretty out of touch with the ordinary burner, but she's not really getting rich off of it.
Burning Man is definitely a problematic fave of mine, but I do think it still has a lot of great things about it. Happy to answer questions as best I can without going into enough detail to ID me specifically.
That's what we're all hoping.
Rowling absolutely loves using libel lawsuits to shut down criticism of her. Love to see it turned back against her.
It's impossible to convey to people who weren't alive and politically conscious at the time how absolutely insane almost every single person in America went after 9/11. It makes the current level of bloodthirst for Palestine look tame.