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This feels same as Wyatt Cheng claiming you can't buy gear with real money in Diablo Immoral.

Giveaway today is https://www.gog.com/en/game/beautiful_desolation

One guy from simracing community made me a plan for the aluminum DIY simrig in CAD, and I have ordered all required stuff in Motedis. Three weeks later, I have started to build it by myself. Took me two days, in which my wife learned, that I can use a very colourful palette of swearwords

I finished The Quarry it was freakin' great. It took me 20 hours to finish, keep in mind that I'm a super slow gamer and I tried to find all the tarot cards (I got 14/22). The death toll: Abigail, Emma, Kaylee, Caleb, Chris, Constance and Silas died. I'm pretty sure I can't save Kaylee, Constance, or Silas. I'm iffy on whether Chris can be saved. The most important thing is that my girl Kaitlyn survived. This is easily the most impressive game I've ever seen visually. There are 2 very brief hiccups that stand out. A scene where a pair of teens are in a lake. The water looks good except for a brief moment when they are having a splash fight, the water being splashed... it's not the greatest effect. There is another scene where a character briefly uses a blow torch. The jet of flame doesn't look great. In a different game with 6/10 visuals these 2 5/10 effects wouldn't stand out, but when absolutely everything else is 10/10 those 2 effects look placeholder. That's like 0.1% of the game, though. The other 99.9% of the game the production values are LEGENDARY. The graphical fidelity, attention to detail, facial animations, lighting effects, cinematography, sound design, writing, voice acting, they're all off the charts. The bar has been raised, The Quarry is the new gold standard in production value. Where is @Bokishiwhen you need them to post 16K screenshots of this game? Guess y'all will just have to settle for the 4K screenies I posted. Gameplay wise, there's not a whole lot to this. It's basically an interactive movie. It even has a movie mode where you can just sit back and watch it as a movie. I haven't tried movie mode yet, but I read that you can set parameters on how characters act and watch it play out. Once I save everyone I think can be saved (hopefully) on my 2nd playthrough, I'll give movie mode a spin. Anyway, gameplay consists of QTEs with fairly generous timing, choices, interrupts/actions which you may or may not chose to make (sometimes it's better to not act), and a few moments where you can fire a shotgun, but these wind up being sort of like the interrupts/actions given how generous an amout of time the game gives you to line up a shot and decide whether to pull the trigger or nor, except for 1 time near the very end where you have a much smaller window of time to take the shot. The game lets you walk around freely at times. Sometimes it's over the shoulder 3rd person with full camera control, other times it's fixed camera. It's during these times that you can look for tarot cards, clues, and evidence.

I converted a mobile laptop table into a makeshift stand for my wheel: It works fine for the time being, I just wish I could slide the pedals further away, but the crossbar prevents that. I put a couple 13 lbs kettlebells on the legs to keep the table from tipping when I'm steering hard. Sometime in the future my plan is to get/make a dedicated schlongpit rig with a modular design where I can swap the wheel with my HOTAS flightstick. I went with Thrustmaster because I come from the flight/space sim world and Thrustmaster makes really high quality flightsticks. I don't know how good their reputation in the wheel & pedal world is, but I have no complaints so far. For an entry level wheel & pedal set the TMX Pro seems decent enough.

Well, completed my "Mystery" in Surviving Mars (the "AI" one, which was more of a nuisance than a threat, even though it was "medium" difficulty), so I'm sorta "done" with the playthrough as far as I can tell (at least, without mods that start new mysteries once the previous completes). Colony is running mostly smoothly, aside from my rabbits breeding a bit too much, leading to food issues, so I had to sort that out. I noticed Shuttles would "steal" food from food storage just to move it around...and around...and around, leading to enough food available, but not enough in stock where it needed to be (yes, I have minimum stock levels set). Disabling shuttle access to food stocks seems to have sorted that. I ended up getting rid of the research outpost to try and fix the "suicide walk", it made it better, but since I have outposts in that area for mining I still get the occasional asphyxiating Geologist that decides shuttles are for weaklings and just hikes across the map. Given I my population is now self-sustaining I don't particularly care anymore since it's not very common and the hit to prospective colonist applicants doesn't matter anymore. As an aside, I got my colony down to 0 Renegades. Once you figure out how that works it is kind of a cakewalk. Going to try and get a few more achievements (like build 5 Wonders, and "get filthy rich"), maybe try and get to the point where all my colonists are Martianborn, and then call it done for this playthrough, I think.

The wheel, which I am currently testing for a possible cooperation on a project with a Driving School, is Fanatec DD1 Formula 1. And Fanatec Clubsport Pedals v3. Berfore that I have used like 6 years Logitech Driving force GT, and 4 years Logitech G29. TMX Pro seems like a solid entry level for start with Simracing "career" if you want to know, if games like ACC will be enough fun to justify little bit more spending to "upgrade your immersion". If you will enjoy ACC enough to be willing to get little bit more out of it, go for the upgrade of your pedals first This is the biggest upgrade you can do and is probably a cheapest one. And this is the only upgrade, which in the end, can make a difference on your speed. Everything else in Simracing is mostly just for the fluff Oh and you should plan your upgrades always in 3-5 years advance If you decide to upgrade one day, and decide to stay long term in Thrustmater "environment", this is definitely the best upgrade you can get https://www.thrustmaster.com/en-us/products/t-lcm-pedals/ Anyway, as I said, first you need to decide, if it gives you enough fun over games like Forza on gamepad, and if yes, you can send me any questions regarding simracing, you'd have, and I'll be happy to give you an advice As I am slowly building up my own SimRig since 2019 This is my current setup, and it needs probably few more years to finish https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dOi8K3KER37oekKGu-jya4lqilFuDhz1/view?usp=sharing

I know, not the man anyone here wants to hear from, but I found the article as a whole interesting (it covers more than just the interview) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61825525 Lavrov: "Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are."

Here's a great piece on a Russian angle to the war that the many casual observers and commentators are not seeing: https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/87319

Nah. Biden has made it central to his foreign policy that Russia needs to lose in Ukraine. And he has enough Republican support for this policy. In fact, among both R's and D's in Congress, the demand is for Biden to go even further in supporting Ukraine, such as providing missiles that can hit Russian territory.

TRUTH!!!!

After a decade and some blue balling earlier this week, Dragon's Domga 2 has been announced:

Assetto Corsa Competizione This is the most famous section of Laguna Seca Raceway with the blind turns and hardcore elevation drop. I'm just practicing for now to get the feel of my wheel and the car (2019 911 GT3) down. My best ever lap so far is 1.28.68 while the record is 1.24.02. Once I can consistently run 1.27 and 1.28 laps I'll do an actual race. Edit: I posted a 1.27.75. If I can post laps like that consistently then it's race time.

I understand. However, Sauli Niinistö is almost the opposite of a scaremonger: very careful with his language and very understated in his tone. I know you probably weren't aware of this and almost certainly haven't been able to listen to him in his native language, so no blame on you. Btw, not relevant, but here's another example of the charm of Scandinavia (for me, anyway). The president of Finland came to a book fair to listen to his wife, but all the seats were taken so he just sat on the stairs. There's something refreshingly humane about that, i.e. the leader of country being in a position to do something simple like that without any hassle.

Faithless! StarCitizen will be like Starfield, but good. Finally, Starfield 5 will have a decent competition.

Still will come out before Star Citizen.

I really hope you'll develope a combat Gameplay better than your competitor Bethesda/Skyrim. Please give possibility to players to lock enemies and switch from one to another. Add also critical damage: cutting arms, legs ect...

I'd die happy in that case

Woman About to be Evicted Was Saved By Neighbors Who Bought the Home For Her

101 year-old woman is reunited with painting stolen by Nazis

The effects of free space path loss on massive MIMO beamforming when propagated through air of varying density and temperature.

You can never hold ground without something on the ground to hold it. Imo, the tank is here to stay, the only question being how long it will be manned. Drones right now don't have an effective counter, ie. something that doesn't cost more than the drone it takes down. But you can look at Ukraine and, if you cut down on the BS talk, you can see that drones really can't do anything on their own.

Anybody else not a fan of the mandatory reload of crossbow prior to switching weapons??? In no other game that I can think of is it mandatory to reload your weapon BEFORE swapping to a different one. What's the point if hot-swapping in a fight at all if I have to wait for the crossbow to reload? IMO, the reload shouldn't be mandatory until swapping back to the crossbow.

I would but I admit a part of me is a for ridiculous parts of TOS related TREK... Also I just knew new TREK would go there, I just thought it'd be in DISCOVERY's 2nd season...

I also picked up Chaos Gate with the Epic games coupon. It's very grimdark. Does this massive ship have a lounge where space marines can get a drink? Combat is super fun, but I am a bit overloaded by all the abilities and equipment options. Still, it scratches that Xcom itch I get regularly.

Very first impressions from chaos gate: How do I skip people talking at the start of a mission? Why can I pause the game during load screens? It is interesting that your grey knights can climb terrain, but the strength of their armour means they are ripping out / crushing parts of the terrain while climbing, so their team mates have to find alternate routes. It is fun how the terrain can sometimes be interacted with. Ripping off a big chunk of metal and throwing it at an opponent being my highlight so far. I can see how only Nurgle will get repetitive. Normal people shouldn't survive a burst from a storm bolter.

Me at 2am, bleary-eyed and washed out, but I also drank too much caffeine.

I actually found it more interesting to hear about BBC's failed attempts to get access to eastern Ukraine before the war... hence trying to emphasize the article itself and not Lavrov (as funny/sad as it is, the quoted line is probably the first true words he had said for a very long time)

They're the best (says one). Here's some marvelous footage. Btw, if anyone wishes to count what time signature that main riff is in, there's a fairly big clue right there in front of you.

I bought Symphony of War yesterday and I'm already around halfway through with it. It's a mix of Fire Emblem and Dragon Force (if anyone else gets that reference you get an imaginary cookie). This game is stupid good and very challenging and it has a decent story.

I played The Witcher 3 and didn't like it. Worse, I guess: I liked Cyberpunk 2077 more than The Witcher 3.

Mine is very first underground with drippy walls and creaky flashing emergency light. Soldiers done, Invisible Mr. Cthulhu somehow done, found the stuff I needed to find, it seems I'm in a finish line, finally thank gods...well helllooooooo, babby's first Controller! Was some Amnesia Dark Descent levels brown pants experience. People always say CoP's better, more polished etc. but IMO it doesn't have a quarter of Shadow's atmosphere.

BruceVC and his thoughts about unions and violently breaking up protests. "Unions ruin the economy." "Sometimes governments have no choice but to violently end strikes." "People on strike thought they were impervious to bullets so they got violent." and also "Affected shareholder values, so it was necessary to break up the strike." Nothing hasty about your judgement. Don't let the old posts fool you, just because BruceVC stopped using there and is now typing their all the time, it's still the same poster. I originally made a joke on their being a posessive pronoun. The Agent Smith showed up and asked me why I persist, and I had no real answer. I bet he'll come around the corner and will threaten to terminate this post too.

It might look like I'm salty about having a weeb hairdo, but I assure you that's not the case.

Watching Draymond’s gradual decline is leading me to come to terms with my own pickup game.

Running up and down all day to get the resources where I want them can get old. Baskets for ziplines would be a great addition to gameplay! Also, I’d like to ride the flying insects. thanks love the game