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The game is like a "very old person driver" meme simulator, so I won't miss those turns. Brake, accelerate, brake, herky jerk, 20mph everywhere, baby!

Maybe this discussion point should be in politics but, eh...

Neither my computer nor my video game were bought directly from ads. My book and record collection also numbers in the thousands, and essentially none of them(*) were brought directly from ads. Buying my home also had nothing to do with ads. And so on. See? You don't know what you're talking about. Don't make ridiculous claims. You have your world, and it can be whatever it is, I'm not claiming anything about it. But please don't make untrue claims about other people's worlds. You just don't know them. (*) Essentially = there may be a few whose purchase had something to do with ads, although I can't think of any, and they are certainly less than one per cent.

Yesterday I had a motorcycle accident in Cyberpunk 2077 that left me flying through the air for almost a minute, with a crash so hard it killed me instantly (well, duh). I immediately texted a friend of mine saying that CP reminded me of Stunts (aka 4D Sports Driving). Then we talked a bit about the good old times. Today I fell through the world exiting a car after it rolled over. Hilarious. If you care about driving mechanics and physics and you bought Cyberpunk 2077 then you're in luck, I have this bridge here I want to sell you. Slightly used.

Heh, I think we talked about that one earlier. GTA V is excellent. It is amazing what Rockstar has done with these open world action games. The growth from GTA3 to 5 is also remarkable. But having great driving and physics is what defines the GTA series. That and the crime boss storyline. The two games don't really benefit from any type of comparison. Cyberpunk was designed with some similar goals, but it is still an RPG first. It is focused on character development and conversation trees. It does that really well. It also has some pretty amazing attention to detail when it comes to atmospheric storytelling. Those are the strengths of the developers, and the game plays to them. Just like Rockstar plays to their strengths in GTA. So yeah, I'm happy to live in a world where both of these types of games exist. Tearing one down for not being the other seems like a dumb idea if you like good games.

That's the thing, Cyberpunk is way more interactive when it comes to conversations. The NPC's seem more diverse. You can wander around the stores and apartments and they are more detailed and fleshed out than in GTA. It's not a perfect game, but neither is GTA. They have very different focus points.

While I think copyright and "intellectual property" is unadulterated asinine bull**** that should've been done with two decades ago, 'corps for some reason think they should stay valid. They can't just copy over the work from another studio, while Rockstar had a team working on racing games. The minimap is annoying as hell though, don't know what they were thinking there... The memes are worth it tho!

The main reason I prefer being on foot in most open-world (at least for a 1st run) is because I can't stand getting in/out, on/off, whatever riding option there is, 5000000000 times every time I want to look at/pick something up. Because I must find/pick up EVERYTHING. Ooo, shiny! The motorcycle is ok tho - at least it doesn't control like a tank in a grease-pit. I'll have to try the flying bike fun. Will photomode still work during?

That's good stuff. People in nursing homes here first didn't have access to protective equipment and second wen't to work with symptoms. Many also aren't allowed to stop family members from just going in and once there is a spread in the facility some haven't even quarantined the people that are sick. It is absolutely the peoples fault, they didn't follow the guidelines then, and don't really do it now either. I lost count on how many times I've had to ask people to keep their distance when I had to go to stores and such. The Swedish healthcare system also had a really bad drought of equipment in the early days since they decided to not keep any stock of items at all, but to rather go with a more modern "just in time" system of constant supplies of just enough stuff coming in. Edit; Not to mention a ****load of retarded bureaucrazy. Healthcare workers were offered gasmasks from the Swedish army, that were NBC rated. But because they were made before we had CE markings they denied using them...

Yay, my ultimate char made it to level 16, was a little distracted last couple days so I didn't get to play. Fingers crossed I won't mess up, but Salvation of time + BDD + Strand cheese should make stuff easy enough, I also have my alt at exactly the same spot.

How come I have not had any of these great oopsies? I want hilarity too ... I suppose it might help if I actually drove more (not to mention played more). I'm still a prefer traveling on-foot type.

There are bits and sections of both that I liked more than the other. Both shows had pacing problems, FMA's beginning dragged a little whereas the political maneuvering in the middle section of Brotherhood was way too long for what little payoff it offered. The character development in FMA was a tad better for secondary characters, but that's probably because it had more time to kill as filler, at least until the point where the manga's author told the team to finish the story on their own. I didn't like the endings of either to be honest. FMA's ending was incredibly unsatisfying in the same way Lost's ending was, philosophically okay but really bad at tying up loose ends and Brotherhood's ending was just simply batsh*it insane in the way only Japanese manga/anime storylines can be. I grew up with anime, although at the time with a lot of the shows we had no idea that they were from Japan in the first place. We just watched cartoons on TV - a lot of the shows were animes. Sure some were clearly set in Japan (like Captain Tsuabasa or Attack No. 1) but others, like Dog of Flanders? In hindsight watching Dog of Flanders as a kid was perhaps not the best of ideas, but everything that was animated and fit for TV was simply rated for kids back then. It sometimes still is. I have a newer blu ray of Grave of the Fireflies, and it still reads FSK (our version of CARA) 6. Really? 6?

Chibi-Usa: I didn't mind her at first, but I'm starting to get a little more annoyed with her because of how much screen-time as well as the narrative itself she's been dominating since she entered the show. The show is called Sailor Moon, not Sailor...Mini Moon! However, my understanding is that the focus eventually switches back to more on Usagi, so I'm remaining patient with her. Mamoru: That entire sequence was brutal. Logically, of course I know this is going to resolve itself just fine eventually and it's completely silly to spend even a moment thinking about it or feeling bad for Usagi, but just like when the Sailors each met their respective fates at the end of season 1, the execution is brutal and heartfelt enough that my brain stops paying attention to the fact that it's a show where nothing bad is ever going to last (...well, besides poor Naru's dark heaven king guy getting smoked in season 1 - I kind of liked him, and he's still dead, R.I.P.). The absolute despair she was in had me convinced she might legitimately start having like suicidal tendencies for a bit there, but of course, her being herself, she was able to quickly redirect herself in aims of resolving things (and that made perfect sense for both her character as well as the show as a whole, since her being in a depression for an extended period would've been too much to bear). I've probably laughed the most at this show that I've ever laughed at anything (particularly if we look at in the lens of being, you know, an absolutely ludicrous ~40 episodes a season, and it also being a completely wholesome, silly type of entertainment), and the fact that it can elicit other types of emotional responses is...well, great. It's just a great show, it really is - it's right up there with my two other favorite cartoons of all time, which are Steven Universe and Avatar: The Last Airbender (and, of course, my list of favorite shows overall is dominated by cartoons in general, so that's saying a lot from me!). Funnily, I only just barely decided to write about in here at all on the off-chance anybody else had ever seen the show (and also, as a formerly life-long anti-anime zealot, I was kind of embarrassed to admit that I liked and even loved it), so I'm also glad that I did, .

I'm two episodes into Chibi-Usa showing up during Sailor Moon R. I'm not sure if it's me getting older or having seen the show already, but I don't hate her nearly as much as I did during the original run. On the other hand it's been only two episodes. Plenty of episodes with her left. Anyway, there's a reason I picked Sailor Moon R 15 (Episode 61, overall) to post now. It's the one where Mamoru breaks up with Usagi to prevent her death in the future (or his vision of it, anyway). It... yeah. As ridiculous as that might sound given the subject matter and the abject silliness of much the anime, even knowing how it will all turn out - which, realistically, you'd know even on a first time viewing unless you're so dense you'd sink in lead - I found myself feeling terrible for her in that scene where she enters the phone booth, sits down and cries. The setup and execution of this scene is simply flawless. Down to the incredibly in character and somewhat weird - I mean weird here when looking at it from the outside, it's really perfectly in character for Usagi - thing she says to herself in the phone booth: "Sorry mom, I can't bring him home any more" - referring to an earlier scene where her parents met him where her mother asked her to bring Mamoru home when Dad's away so they can talk. See Discovery writing team, emotional scenes work much better when you care about the characters. Even if they're usually silly and do ridiculous things like dressing up in sailor outfits to fight evil in the name of love and justice. Heh. Ah, anyway, a heartfelt thank you to @Bartimaeus for making me watch the anime again. I'm planning on watching Sailor Moon Crystal afterwards, I wonder if that will be like watching Full Metal Alchemist and later Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

I think it may depend on the facility. My Dad's living in an assisted living complex and they have been exceptionally careful in their response. People are only supposed to visit for medical reasons, and they set up specific events for meetings with family members. They've only had one confirmed case in a staff member. He's signed up for an early vaccination there, so I'm happy about that.

You are perfectly entitled to regard yourself primarily as a consumer. But please don't assume that anyone else sees the world that way. Your claim that everything people have came from an ad is also quite obviously untrue.

Consultants are like eunuchs. They "know" how...

december 29, 1890 20 medals of honor awarded to us soldiers for the killing in the snow. less than 500 us soldiers. as many as 300 dead indigenous people. by comparison, o' the 70,000 us marines who fought on iwo jima, 27 were awarded medals of honor. Wounded Knee: Healing the Wounds of the Past ... "I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream..." --black elk

I meant to post this earlier but forgot: What ray tracing lighting/shadows can do in this game when it works (and it did look like that in my game, essentially): And yet, sometimes ... I dunno, I don't think it's supposed to look like this ... I don't think it worked well when it was daylight outside maybe? Did that happen to anyone else, if you were using RT? It's no biggie, just funny/curious.

Not quite hardcore, but I did play a *lot* of SSI's "Battlecruiser" (C64 version) in 2020 😛

https://bigmemes.funnyjunk.com/movies/Crowded+tightlipped+finch_db80cc_8166083.mp4

❤️ Edit: Nostalgia aside, this is a great, mellow, more recent song of theirs, as well.

Repetition adds to the hate. Really, all Palpatine had to do was make Anakin be a main healer.

Josh said the he (and others on Deadfire) were pretty bummed and burned out after Deadfire sold poorly. He also said that he didn't want to do another pillars game in the forseeable future (because PoE + Deadfire was a lot of that) - but instead tackle something smaller as director. Besides that he's the studio's design director and provides feedback on all projects so I guess half of his day is filled with meetings and such anyway. Also Avowed is and was Feagus' "baby". I guess Josh isn't so much into directing contemporaty first person RPGs - although he seemed to have enjoyed Skyrim quite a bit. However - Josh is still working on the TTRPG of PoE. Every now and then he shows some of the stuff he wrote on Twitter (last entry: Paladins of the Steel Garrote). I like what he does with it! So he's not completely off the pillars hook maybe.

I believe I found the Cold Blood BURGL chip before I had been granted the quest, but didn't realize. After being granted the quest, I found the location from online guides, but the chip was no longer there. I then realized I had already found it and went back to BURGL. After having looked at guides, I now knew there was a BURGL chip beside BURGL, so I grabbed that before talking to him. I was able to give him that chip, but not the Cold Blood chip. At this point I seemed unable to complete the quest so I abandoned it. Not sure if there is anything I can do to recover this quest now?

Huh, what?

The chip is not located where it is supposed to be on Xbox, stuck in the red paint? Doesn't show for me. This might be known already but I haven't seen it reported anywhere except on reddit. Without the chip showing up I can't complete the mission or unlock stone foundation items.

I started a new game and the chip was there which means I've picked it up before and the quest will NOT complete and the pebblet foundation is not available. In the new game when i turned in the chip, pebblet foundation unlocked for purchase. Can this be fixed so that the quest will complete and the pebblet foundation item can be purchased even though the chip was already previously found and turned in before the new features released? Thanks.

I have searched endlessly in the paint and it is not there. I've referenced videos of people showing where it is and it isn't there. Could it be that I've collected this before and the new building unlocks are not showing and the quest doesn't complete? Playing on original Xbox one. Would really like that stone foundation.

It's in the red paint but invisible or hard to see. I just waddled around the paint and found it.