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Workers demolish columns, find a note embedded inside saying "these columns are ugly and I'm glad you're finally demolishing them."

The author of the note is already dead, but the renovation plans were already underway a year before he died, so he got to go to his grave knowing history had proved him right.  And probably giggling at the thought of the eventual discovery of his spiteful time capsule.

 

At this point they might as well take another five years with it; PC gaming time has been harder for me to come by and I anticipate the situation will improve around the time the kid has to start doing homework.   

I don't know of any quick-sell capability. I tired of the inventory management game in games long ago. I just created a few bags of holding and picked up everything I found. :)

Finished (and enjoyed!) the first Bridge book, and will likely come back to the series after I've made more of a dent in the rest of my reading list.  (I will also offer a discount rate as proofreader on future editions, no joke.)

Another recent read was "Weapon: Mouth (Adventures in the Free Speech Zone)" by Stoney Burke, whom I know from listening to many of his comedic rants at the Berkeley campus over the years when I was a student (he was one of many local weirdos who did that type of thing at a regular time each day); some may also know him as the truck driver from the freeway scene in Matrix: Reloaded.  I actually wasn't prepared for what a good writer he is, and would recommend the book to some folks here.  The stories he tells about getting arrested at Republican conventions and that kind of thing gave me HST vibes.

Shifting from actual books to literary junk food, I learned about the Gou Tanabe manga adaptations of Lovecraft recently, found his "At the Mountains of Madness" at the library, and plowed through it in a couple sittings, backward pages be damned.  Really fucking good and makes me sad that we'll probably never get the del Toro movie.

Saw this post and checked out Mountains of Madness.  You're right, that was an excellent adapation, and the artist did a great job with it.  Very accurate to the book as well, which is always a nice change of pace.  Was always curious to see a visualization of what they were seeing in that book, and this is probably the only way.  Because lets face it, any movie version they do is going to shift the story heavily since the book is very much a slow burn with no action except the bit at the very end, which doesn't work for hollywood movies.

Developer Update from Gamescom. Just wanted to drop this here for Samwise's benefit. Can't believe it's been around five and a half years since they put this thing up for preorder.

With the right mods that can be fixed though. I gave it one honest playthrough and after that, I went to Nexus and got mods to get me through the tedious parts.

Mind posting your modlist?

First I installed Modfinder. Nexus isn't absolutely reliable for important mods anymore but Modfinder is always current.

https://github.com/Pathfinder-WOTR-Modding-Community/ModFinder

Once that's done you want Toybox. With Toybox, there's no limit to what you can do. You can use it just for a little help or spoil the game for yourself but it's important. Here's an example of what it can do. I wanted the ultimate ending where you marry the Queen and you both ascend to godhood along with your party. When the time came I couldn't do it because I'd forgotten one step that happened halfway through the game. It would have taken days of replaying from that point to get what I needed. With Toybox, I just cheated the item into my inventory. I mean geeze, I just wanted to see the cutscenes! :)

My other mod is Bubble Buffs. That's a tool that lets your characters automatically cast all of the buffs you need for major battles.
I also have Puzzle Skip which helped me through a set of insanely irritating quests. I'm not sure if it's currently working or not though.

Those sound good.  Does Toybox also have a quick sell ability or should I just stop picking up trash?

Yeah. But I feel very cranky about things like "oh you needed THAT item, not the other forty you have with you" and "oh sorry we didn't tell you three hours ago that you needed to do that quest first" and "remember way back at the beginning of the game? you actually needed to do what seemed like a minor sidequest that's hard to find otherwise you can't really win at the end" because all of those design mistakes were done so much at the dawn of CRPGing and everybody understood "don't do that" henceforth. That is, until the wheel turned enough that a new generation of designers got to make the same mistakes all over again.

"That, sucks. I hope I don't encounter any of that soon", I thought, as I entered the Tenebrous Depths.

With the right mods that can be fixed though. I gave it one honest playthrough and after that, I went to Nexus and got mods to get me through the tedious parts.

Mind posting your modlist?

First I installed Modfinder. Nexus isn't absolutely reliable for important mods anymore but Modfinder is always current.

https://github.com/Pathfinder-WOTR-Modding-Community/ModFinder

Once that's done you want Toybox. With Toybox, there's no limit to what you can do. You can use it just for a little help or spoil the game for yourself but it's important. Here's an example of what it can do. I wanted the ultimate ending where you marry the Queen and you both ascend to godhood along with your party. When the time came I couldn't do it because I'd forgotten one step that happened halfway through the game. It would have taken days of replaying from that point to get what I needed. With Toybox, I just cheated the item into my inventory. I mean geeze, I just wanted to see the cutscenes! :)

My other mod is Bubble Buffs. That's a tool that lets your characters automatically cast all of the buffs you need for major battles.
I also have Puzzle Skip which helped me through a set of insanely irritating quests. I'm not sure if it's currently working or not though.

Less than a week after I bought the dlcs for Kingmaker, a Humble Bundle dropped.  At least I can get all the WotR dlcs for under 15.

Yeah. But I feel very cranky about things like "oh you needed THAT item, not the other forty you have with you" and "oh sorry we didn't tell you three hours ago that you needed to do that quest first" and "remember way back at the beginning of the game? you actually needed to do what seemed like a minor sidequest that's hard to find otherwise you can't really win at the end" because all of those design mistakes were done so much at the dawn of CRPGing and everybody understood "don't do that" henceforth. That is, until the wheel turned enough that a new generation of designers got to make the same mistakes all over again.