Oh wow 
Dreamy!
Nice bokeh
Orange you happy there??
Heâs dutch, I bet⌠
Saw this super photo on NMS RedditâŚ
Resigned to my new life as a Spaghetti Western Cattle Farmer while I wait for the next big NMS update/LNF info. Good for tumbleweed watchinâ, yuuuup
*spits âtobaccyâ *
⌠yuuuuup.
Saguaro you headed?
If you really wanted a spaghetti western in a sci-fi / fantasy setting, I would strongly recommend Stephen Kingâs âDark Towerâ series 1.
This first book, âThe Gunslingerâ,2 clearly establishes the main character, Roland of Gilead, as a Clint Eastwood type character - something King himself has acknowledged.
Donât be fooled by stuff youâve seen on TV or the movies3. The books are great - the movies were trash.
1 For many years I didnât rate Stephen King very highly. I thought he was a hack, writing generic disposable novels for the airport and supermarket book rack trade.
The Dark Tower series came as a surprise to me. They are clearly Kingâs venture into experimental and high-quality writing. They are books he wrote because he had a story he wanted to tell, rather than books he wrote because he had to pay the rent.
2 âThe Gunslingerâ is the first of the Dark Tower novels. Itâs also, by far, the most experimental. As such, itâs quite a difficult read - itâs very confusing and hard to know whatâs going on. Fortunately the books are written as a series of more or less standalone stories, so itâs possible to skip book one, and jump in at book two or three, then go back to The Gunslinger when you have a better idea of whatâs happening.
3 There have been various attempts to make a movie or a TV show from The Dark Tower. They failed horribly - as should have been obvious to anyone making the attempt. The Dark Tower series is a huge story arc that takes months to read. You could, perhaps, spread the story over 7 or 8 movies, like the âHarry Potterâ series, or an entire TV series like âThe X Filesâ - but an attempt to compress the Dark Tower into a single movie is doomed.
Really? I had two other people tell me they liked these books. I also wrote them off for the same reason as you, I was bored by everything else I had read written by him, including the excerpts of the Dark Tower. You recommend not starting with a confusing part 1, so which part would be better to start with?
My introduction to the Dark Tower was Wizard and Glass, which is the fourth book in the series, and was, at that time (late 1990s), the last one written.
As Iâve said, in those days I wouldnât normally have read Stephen King - I had a pretty low opinion of his work, but I was stuck in a hotel for a week, and Wizard and Glass was available. I was so impressed that I later sought out the earlier books, âDrawing of the Threeâ, and âThe Waste Landsâ, which I also enjoyed. I tried to get âThe Gunslingerâ, but it was out of print (no Amazon in those days).
Since then, King wrote a further three books in the series - âWolves of the Callaâ, âThe Song of Susannahâ, and âThe Dark Towerâ. At the time of publication (2004), King said the series was finished, and âThe Dark Towerâ was the final volume. However, in 2012 he released a further book âThe Wind Through the Keyholeâ, which is set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla.
When âThe Gunslingerâ finally came back into print, I bought a copy - and very quickly realised why it had gone out of print in the first place. Whilst the book makes reasonable sense to someone who already understands the world(s) of the Dark Tower, as a standalone novel it is virtually unreadable. The reader is dropped into various strange and uncanny situations, with little or no explanation or back story. The sections donât really end, rather they switch to further peculiar and unexplained scenarios. It is clear that the main character knows what is happening, but you, the reader, are never told. If I had not already read the other books in the series, I think I would have been very confused and disappointed.
As to my advice - well you can, of course read the books in the order King intended, starting with âThe Gunslingerâ. If you do, keep in mind thet it gets a lot better in the later books. Donât give up just because The Gunslinger was hard work.
Other than that, you can start anywhere you like. Book 2, âThe Drawing of the Threeâ would be a logical choice - but as Iâve said, I started with Book 4 âWizard and Glassâ and it worked out fine for me.
Once youâve read a few in the series, and youâre familiar with whatâs going on, you can go back and read âThe Gunslingerâ - Itâll make a lot more sense.
My friends been recommending this to me for years too but like most people, I just canât get over that image I have in my head of Stephen King. Eventually I will get around to it, and then scold myself for taking so long and not giving Stephen a chance sooner 
Hired a Ranch hand
He may be possessed by ancient spirits though⌠hard to tell with this guy.
I spent a lot of time in Echoes going around and collecting stave parts, learning the language and running Autophage errands I never actually built a proper staff after gathering all the bits, Iâd only done the questline build.
Finally got around to it.
Not sure how it works but I got lucky with an S Rank after crafting it
Was hoping for purple but lello is just as fine :3
Which staff core is that (the middle part)? I donât remember it
Itâs the Reclaimed staff core if I recall. The one that has two head variants (a head and a claw)