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The manliest song there is. No weakling women in sight.

Now I want a new NOLF.

A full-bodied blend with a complex, earthy bouquet and just a hint of kitty litter.

Heh, yep.

Following the trumps legal team press conference. So Biden‘s victory was actually a conspiracy between Venezuela and Cuba and China? That’s amazing! This sounds like a Brad Thor novel! I take it Rudy Giuliani will be the action hero that will save the day? Quite a story LOL

Looks like this is a vast Sino-Venezuelan conspiracy. Watching this press conference by Giuliani.

the difference is that back then it was old people who got triggered by what young people did. now its young people who use necromancy to resurrect problems that were dead and buried and then get triggered by the zombies they raised.

That’s so obvious AI am angry at myself AI never thought of that as potential next IO project. Considering that recent Hitmans were great Bond games, I have high hopes for this one. I wonder if they reuse the formula or try something new.

The Internet was a mistake.

My hubby's amazing ability to reach the top of the shelves, carry large/heavy packages, electrical/mechanical skills and most vitally, his laconic tendencies meaning he doesn't mind my rambling tendencies, are very important indeed, and much appreciated every day.

Fixed that for you, perv. (It's a joke, really! Promise!)

I just woke up and darnit, I shouldn't have clicked on it.

Getting slowly to the finish of Shadowrun Hong Kong. The game feels more like book than a game Or more like Visual Novel with a fight now and then Just got to little bit of over 40 hours of gameplay

@Azdeus I honestly don't even remember why I didn't play NOLF. I remember thinking it looked cool but I was probably still obsessed with some other game or three and never got around to it. Unless it was one of those I couldn't get running. That happened a bit more often back then. I'm pretty sure I at least started the game and ran around a bit or something.

The narrator sounds very familiar. Ah hah, it's Bowman from GR Wildlands

That’s like asking who is the prettiest stripper at the King Frog Truck Stop Restaurant and Caberet in Macon Georgia on a Tuesday afternoon.

No One Lives Forever - oh, that one. I bought it but never played it beyond the intro or something. Cyberpunk dev's made TW3? I suppose that makes some sense then in terms of anticipating a similar quality of game then, seeing how popular TW3 seems to be. That's yet another game I rapidly lost interest in/didn't get far with, myself. Haha.

I told hubby what day it was. He gave a little exasperated snort and went back to staring at his monitor. Not exactly the celebratory type. Edit: I gave him an affectionate pat on the head, tho. His reaction was another grunt.

Seems Malc & I like the same kind of story. Political corruption, international intrigue, espionage, all it needs is a man in a tux and a couple of racy sex scenes (with a female preferably) to make it complete! Hey we love a good spy yarn!

How??? Did dead people from these countries voted for him as well?

Nioh. It seems to be an action game with light RPG elements. The controls are rebindable and quite comfortable, though, on-screen prompts refer to controller buttons. The graphics and sound (OST, VA) are good, but most lines that are supposed to be in Japanese are a bit too authentic (the VA is in Japanese with English subtitles, which I rarely read during gameplay, because everything kills me in 2 hits). The story starts with the protagonist who is a privateer in the 16th century England. He is locked in the Tower of London and his bird-fish-spirit friend comes to rescue. She (they?) shows the PC a way out, but then the spirit gets kidnapped by a bald guy in dark robe and with glowing tattoos, who initiates the second phase of the first boss battle shortly before that. Then the PC (in a full set of heavy armor) falls from the wall into the river and escapes successfully (by swimming, of course). Then the PC is shown pursuing (?) the bald guy by ship. As I understand, they all travel to Japan to mine some mystical mineral, called "Amrita". The PC disembarks in a random village and goes forth to slay demons and find his spirit friend. So he ventures to a random ship, finds a bigger demon there, slays it (took around 6 attempts) and sets the ship on fire (not sure if it was intentional). I suppose, the story is not the main selling point, but this was somehow too random. The PC version also includes a helmet with a valve for better immersion. The combat and level design are quite decent, but each level is disconnected from others, i.e. there is no interconnectivity between locations.

Kindle Unlimited has many self published titles. In other words books you cannot find elsewhere. They also have a great many that are just out of print. I read for five books a month. Sometimes more. It’s definitely a great source. I also make prodigious use of the local public library.

rewatching the rookie all the cast have to leave force plot still painfully obvious one of the few show can handle many hard tone swing in pretty much every episode pretty good

I don't see the need to have men day. Everyday is men day in our glorious western patriarchy and it rocks!

Shrine_Hylea, d4a5e066-cb27-4dfa-8529-3691fb9b145f Is it this?

DLSS 2.0 is a straight upgrade over TAA, but does have some of the same bluriness. Native has aliasing, and somehow DLSS did manage to add more detail than native to some shots, especially foliage and some of the distant objects. It's definitely not straight forward anymore which one is "best", as native doesn't beat DLSS everywhere in image quality. Performance is where the argument is won, because in a lot of situations, you aren't running these games at the quality settings you want without DLSS.

I don't think anyone posted it? Going to put guru's review links here for anyone who prefers to read over watch extended videos. https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-review,1.html https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-rx-6800-review,1.html ------------------ Re: that DLSS video with the airplane game: I saw that elsewhere. If you look carefully there are some differences - without DLSS, the color and contrast are darker and less yellow (in that video anyway), while DLSS has trees and ground shadows much less dark/contrast-y, which I personally disliked. The grassy road/trees, the grass and flowers has a bit more clarity all around and a better green/blue shift without DLSS (vs yellower) where they have you focusing on the tree branch. The plane looks a bit sharper with DLSS, as if it over-rides the softening effect of something like TAA (not saying that's what it's doing, just sorta what it looks like). DLSS can also change some original artistic detail because (I think) of the way it removes then re-adds information. Example: intentionally sun-faded lettering may be darkened and less washed out with DLSS. Not that that matters to most people, mind. Anyway, for the performance gain and the fact it looks really good, it's quite admirable/fantastic, but DLSS is still different than native. Better and different are not the same definition in my mind, so it depends on whether one likes the differences. I think that's going to simply depend on eyeballs as well as monitor/TV used.

'Whacky' thumbnails drive clicks which is why more serious reviewers than Linus look like they're half a second away from outright gurning and the product they're reviewing just turned into Genghis Khan/ Marilyn Monroe. Videos will also always be over ten minutes long if at all possible because that hits the optimal monetisation bracket even if the subject matter doesn't really warrant the length. That's just the way they make money. If I was told I'd get a significant wage increase by pretending to be Amazed At What Happened Next I'd be perpetually surprised too.

I don't think it is. In theory I do read enough for it to be worthwhile and Amazon suckered me into getting Kindle Unlimited by not allowing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to be picked as monthly library choice (I read the first six novels one by one over six months). The price for the books is quite frankly insane, so I figured a free trial period is long enough to finish the series. Like a good useless consumer lemming I so far haven't overcome my inertia to actually cancel it, and I'm not really reading anything that is on Unlimited. Or let's inverse that, nothing I wanted to read so far has been available on Unlimited. edit: It also looks like Amazon stopped offering the lending library service here sometime this summer. All the menu items are gone from my Kindle, the one book I still have is now listed under Kindle Unlimited and can't be returned (well, obviously, how would you return an Unlimited book). The only thing left is Prime Reading which was always significantly worse than being able to read one "free" ebook per month. Free being relative as you'd still need a Kindle and Prime, but that easily paid for itself if you used your one book per month on books with ridiculous cash grabbing prices (*cough* Harry Potter *cough*) or new releases. Pity. Probably turned out to be a bad deal for Amazon. Offering millions of books on Unlimited and most of them being ridiculous pulp is probably a lot better for Bezos' wallet.

Here you will find a list of all the updates that have been pushed out into the game. This will be updated as we continue to develop the game. Patch 1.4.3 Patch 1.4.2 Patch 1.4.1 Fully Yoked Update Patch 1.3.5 Patch 1.3.4 Patch 1.3.3 Patch 1.3.2 Patch 1.3.1 Update 1.3.0 Patch 0.7.1 Update 0.7.0 Patch 0.6.2 Patch 0.6.1 Update 0.6.0 Patch 0.5.1 Update 0.5.0 Patch 0.4.3 Patch 0.4.2 Patch 0.4.1 Update 0.4.0 Patch 0.3.3 Patch 0.3.2 Patch 0.3.1 Update 0.3.0 Patch 0.2.2 Patch 0.2.1 Update 0.2.0 Patch 0.1.2 Patch 0.1.1

Going through Stygian Lovecraft game. I restarted because I thought I could do a better job and then got busy, but I have some time coming up. I want to finish it and then look into other Lovecraftian games.

Sonce alwais thx ubi

It's not decided yet! Obviously this image is totally correct.

Yep. Someone challenged me to do a triathlon at 39 and now I've swam across large bodies of water and traversed mountains at high rates of speed, all with a fair share of near death experiences. Good times.

Not quite true. I was around 35 when I was bored with life and left everything behind to start a new one on the other side of the world. With all my wordly possessions in 3 sports bags and less than $100 in my pocket (and no return ticket). Made a name for myself in my area of work and got more experiences and adventures than you can shake a stick at. Getting past 20 is no reason for not leaving your old comfort zone behind and just "go for it"

Dinner last night was most awesome. Sunny & I drove down to the Lauderdale river landing and did some fishing from the bank. After just 10 minutes I hooked a nice sized largemouth Bass. All across the USA & world there are pro shops selling billions of dollars worth of fancy lures and fishing tackle. They can keep all that trash. Nightcrawlers, crickets, minnows, & shiners. That is all you will ever need! The fish was a big enough for two filets. I dipped it in cornmeal batter and pan fried and served up with butterbeans & pear sauce (applesauce made with pears). Freshwater fish is seriously underrated for dinner!

what the heck was that lol Glad you're enjoying it. Poor Jadeite, though: some of the villains in Sailor Moon get a pretty raw deal, to be honest. It's a shame that real life evil people don't usually backstab each other as much as fictitious villains do, . Early on into season 1, I was actually getting kind of horrified (and amused) by Sailor Moon's body count - she kills like 15 women throughout the first half of the season! Specifically women, too - I don't think she ever directly kills a guy ever.

I finally got around to Neverwinter Nights 2 (complete set on GOG) and have been playing the original campaign off and on the last few weeks. Some aspects like the camera, inventory management, and commands have aged awfully but I think I've discovered how to navigate around them. The story is baseline and simple, but I'm cool with it since deconstructions and in-your-face meta-commentary have been done to death at this point. I'm also getting ready for the next Diablo 3 season (my old college buddies and I traditionally play it every November) as well as my yearly Final Fantasy 3/6 run: another tradition in that I've played through it once a year since '97.

Hello, you're using simple questions, but an answer to those questions is rather complex and it's going to very much vary from company to company. See... Company A) Harry & Greg Games Harry just managed to finish writing a piece of code which allows for 10 000 AI actors to navigate without slowing the game to a crawl. Harry: "Yo, Greg, I did the thing with the AI. Pull the newest version of the code an run those insane prototypes of yours against it, see if it all works properly." Greg: "Thank you, Harry, you're brilliant!" Company B) Awesome Games Incorporated The AI department manager has received an e-mail that the ticket for allowing up to 10 000 AI actors to function simultaneously has just been marked as resolved by Pawn Coder 156, his code reviewed by Senior Pawn 5. He therefore passes the ticket on to his superior, who will give it to QA to see if previously unsatisfactory tests run properly now. Company A) Harry & Greg Games Harry: "Yo, I uploaded more awesome code to git!" Greg: "And I uploaded the assets we talked about to google drive!" *And there was much rejoicing* Company B) Awesome Games Incorporated The networking department manager gives a satisfied smile as he sees all the work hosted on company's private servers. The solid company's back-up policy gives him the assurance he needs to know that the licensed work will keep on making money for the years to come. The rack holding a git server winks at him merrily. Company A) Harry & Greg Games Greg: "Yo, harry, your engine's broken, can you fix it?" Harry: "God damnit Greg, why do I do ALL the programming around here!?" Greg: "I'm an artist man, I don't even know how to write letters!" Company B) Awesome Games Incorporated Manager Sally: "Hello, Martin. Could we borrow Senior Pawn 7? I hear he has a lot of experience in C++ optimization and we could use some tweaks to our engine, the C++ programmers who have the task assigned can't figure anything out anymore so we need a fresh outlook." Manager Martin: "Of course, Sally. Would you be so kind as to fill out the Senior Pawn Leasing Form and run it past accounting so that his work is all in order?" None. Start learning, start coding, see where it takes you. Don't worry about organizational structure until you actually start having an organization to be structured. And if your organization starts having more than a few people and you notice issues with organizing, you may either approach someone who has experience leading larger organizations in general or - just start learning. There are management schools and courses, both around you (probably) and online. Because when you are at a point of having people to manage, there are no easy answers you could simply find on discussion boards. Edit: Incidentally, do start by creating a simple game like space invaders from start to finish, intro to end credits. Don't skimp on anything - do your menu, do your leaderboards (bonus points if they're hosted online), create your settings menu with resolution options and rebindable keys, make the credits roll and appropriate music play while they do so. Draw your invaders and your tanks, get them into the game and manipulate them through the game world. Make the appropriate sounds play at the appropriate times. When you get stuck and don't know how to solve an issue, do partake in online development communities like Unity forums or Game Development Stack Exchange. Communicate. Search. Learn. When you successfully finish all of these things and your space invaders game does everything one would expect it to do, you'll suddenly understand how all the pieces fit together so much better than any amount of words could explain.