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I ordered my wife two presents today: Wind deflectors and her favorite perfume I still have to figure out more presents for her, but thankfully she handles the rest of the present buying. @Keyrock whats the space between rings, 1"?

And we still don't have Bloodborne for PC... Sony can get bent until they stop ignoring the game.

Once they have a big enough chunk of the market they may very well start closing off a lot of their ecosystem. Currently a lot of MS owned studios have their games on, say, Steam (cough Obsidian cough). Should they manage to manoeuvre themselves into enough of an anti-competitive advantage (eg. by owning ActiBliz) I'll bet at least new releases won't be, if they don't outright pull everything. People that claim MS has "changed" compared to "past" MS are deluded, unless they mean that MS has gotten a tad more subtle about some of the anticompetitive bs they pull (most don't mean that though)...

Now I want to play Arcanum again. Last time I did, I remember that it had major issues running on a modern OS. I did get it working enough to play it eventually, but it was a major PITA. That's one game that desperately needs a remaster. Not even to spiffy up the graphics or anything, just make it run on modern OSs without having to jump through 14 hoops of fire and add support for modern resolutions. Conversely, they could follow the trend of adding ray tracing to old games so that you will need a RTX 4090 to run it at 25 FPS at 1080p.

Of course Microsoft is planning to make Activision/Blizzard titles exclusive to their ecosystem, they'd be stupid not to. I hate exclusives, I wish every game was available on every platform. However, exclusives sell systems, that's just how it is. Sony knows that better than anyone, that's how they've beaten Microsoft 3 straight generations and counting. I don't personally care one bit whether this sale goes through or not. I haven't cared about a Blizzard game since Diablo 2 and I haven't cared about an Activision game since... ... ... /scratches head ... Interstate '76(?) I mean, I know CoD is a big deal, but I don't play CoD, nor do I have any plans on starting, so whatever.

I hope they don't, MS seems like it'll treat Blizzard's IPs better than Blizzard currently does.

Incidentially... my wife's Christmas present arrived too: Matching companion piece to the earrings from two years ago. Well, the image link's broken. Boo. Boo.

'Murica

I finished all my X-Mas present wrapping. With that done, I'm officially done with all the stressful (shopping) and tedious (wrapping) holiday stuff. Now, I'm going to drink 15 year old scotch.

It was either here or the funny thread.

I just got a kick out of Sony, king of the exclusives, complaining about MS exclusives. I know it's not 1:1 but I low gut chortled

Good day at the range today. I had this 15 shot grouping at 25 yards that I'm quite happy with: 1 nasty outlier low but the other 14 shots are quite solid for 25 yards.

Just feed off the suffering of gamers.

In case that was aimed at me: quite the stretch if you assume I "like" Steam. It's just a service. I'm still annoyed about the forced Steam on the Orange Box and the resulting death of boxed games. I also buy quite a lot on Gog because I can at least still grab the installers. That being said, the fact that Valve doesn't really make games any more means that their userbase mostly sticks around because Steam is just a good service, if it weren't Epic, or any number of other would-be competitors, would've eaten their lunch by now. Pivoting back to Microsoft: a MS monopoly would very likely also massively hurt Linux gaming, which would in turn be a bad thing for general Linux adoption. In other words a MS gaming monopoly could result in significant fallout in other areas of computing. One would hope regulators would step in before it comes to that, but I have about as much faith in regulators being competent in this area as I have in any multi-billion dollar corporation not screwing over their customers if it means they can make an extra dollar.

Yeah, Microsoft's potential monopoly is bad, they might use their market power to hurt the monopoly I like.

If she runs out of things to do, she could always go back to school (a bad joke based on memes, I have absolutely no knowledge of what her true attendance is)

Arcanum

I'll be honest here, I don't really care all that much about this. I'm glad Griner is free but I think they're all idiots for being idiots abroad, especially in Russia of all places.

Monopolies are bad, first of all, and I'd rather see them burn than that ****ing asshat Kotick get a single cent. Blizzard died a long time ago.

Free and Open Source (AGPL v3), source code on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/noqn/apotheosis Windows Download: https://gitlab.com/noqn/apotheosis/-/jobs/artifacts/main/download?job=publish_win-x64 Linux Download: https://gitlab.com/noqn/apotheosis/-/jobs/artifacts/main/download?job=publish_linux-x64

https://www.eurogamer.net/season-passes-the-in-game-shop-the-shared-world-the-big-diablo-4-interview "Season passes, the in-game shop, the shared world: the big Diablo 4 interview "It's meant to last a long time."" Yeah, that says all one needs to hear right there. Also, **** always online bull****. Atleast they're not making a Conan of it. Also, som obligatory mismanagement stuff, because ofcourse it was https://www.eurogamer.net/diablo-4-development-plagued-by-chaos-and-mismanagement-claims-new-report

And here I am, just drinking tap water all day long.

Finished my xmas shopping as well Nothing really exciting this year, wife got a new phone and some athleisure wear she'd been asking for and my son got some toys from some show he really likes but we don't let him watch much of. We did get the Kaylon (Roborock is the actual brand) for the house but it never went under the tree so I'm not counting it.

Yep. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who chug diet soda like it's water because no or very low calories. I've never been able to stomach the taste and/or aftertaste of any artificial sweetener I've ever tried so I don't personally get the addiction but I do see it a lot. I also don't like natural no calorie sweeteners either, so there's that.

Well, they're pretty efficient. One shot, one goal. Not bad. Maybe the last five minutes will make up for the rest of the game.

I mean if I didn't like it I wouldn't have finished it, but the plot was kind of weak to me. I really liked the atmosphere and the vibe of it though.

Rodents may be the default lab animal for testing but they're intrinsically poor when it comes to aspartame- they actually lack the receptors that make it sweet to us, for example. I've always liked dioxin toxicity as the go to to show how big differences in effects can be; hamsters and guinea pigs have a 1000 fold difference in toxicity and that's despite both being rodents. (Aspartame is one of those chemicals where bad effects make a lot of sense in theory as it will dissociate to methanol, aspartic acid and phenyalanine all of which may have bad effects. Aspartic acid and phenylalanine are both essential amino acids though so will be present naturally, and the amounts of methanol you get from it... well, don't drink beer or spirits, or eat bread, if you're worried the levels of methanol you'd be exposed to from a typical dose of aspartame. Aspartic acid causes anxiety and that is where that effect comes from. Really though, who drinks 1.5-2L of diet soda per day anyway?)

Well it seems we both liked Wednesday, so if at least two more of @Sarex, @majestic, or @InsaneCommander like it we're looking at the apocalypse.

Hey everyone. Was looking for a new game to play and wondered if I should buy PoE. Thing is, I don't have a PC which is capable of running games (not at a good enough speed anyway). Is it worth getting on PS5? I've seen videos and it looks great, but does it have less features than its PC counterpart? Are there any major changes? Thank you in advance!

Hi! Major changes: nope. The features are identical mostly as far as I remember. But the loading times will be long if you don't have an SSD (does every PS5 have that?) because the backgrounds of the levels are huge hand-"painted", prerendered files so that may take some time to process (compared to a fast PC with an SSD). Also I hear that there are some new bugs after porting it ot consoles and those didn't really get fixed. I think it's nothing gamebreaking, but there were complaints (while the PC version is rel. free of nasty bugs).

First Saru Sichr, then the Willbreaker. It also lowers Will on hit which is good for several good chanter invocations because they target Will (see Ben Fidel's Neck and Killers Froze Stiff etc.). Yes, although the PEN bonus is way more important than the damage bonus. I wouldn't max Survival for that alone. Yes - but there are a lot better AoE weapons for Whispers of the Wind because WotEP has a cone that you can't aim manually during the execution of WotW... and thus it often gets targeted in directions where nobody stands. Better options are the two hand mortars (especially with Blindin Smoke - counts as weapon attack and causes Resonant Touches - and Chain Shot - additional bounce of the AoE of the mortar whichg is also great for Resonant Touch), Keeper of the Flame is very good in combination with Saint's War Armor and Imagined Pain (endless wounds with no received damage). Also Watershaper's Focus with modal (Blast) and Ondra's Wrath is very nice. Mohora Tanga in the offhand and a mortar or Keeper of the Flame in the main hand is also a very good combo if you pick Swiuft Flurry + Heartbeat Drumming. The Red FLag DoT can trigger a main hand attack with Swift Flurry - because alls attacks from Swift FLurry and Heartbeat Drumming will be executed with the main hand weapon, even if it got triggered by an offhand weapon attack.

Doubt it, they were getting opened up but Brazil was taking shots right at him if they even did. This World Cup is showing you need a good ol' striker to attack the ball.

Well done, Croatia. Their players had played more time and were supposedly more tired. Still, they won. And one more team needs to practice a lot more shootouts.

Well it's a typo, but the idea of a military cosplaying as a fictional country as part of an 80's movie scheme is even funnier so let's go with that.

Sorry for the double post, (no way to edit the new topic) but this will also keep with the naming convention of the stairs being named after the treads, not the framework of side additions.

Just a suggestion from a fellow game artist. Remove the mushroom sides from the new stair assets and name the "Acorn Stairs". Give them the same property as the standard grass stairs, in that you can add the various material side pieces to them making them much more versatile of a building piece. Now instead of them just being acorn steps with mushroom sides, they can also be acorn steps with stem sides, grass sides and concrete sides as well. Hope this helps...Cheers and Happy Holidays! -ps thanks for a great game!

Just finished watching Wednesday. Not bad, not great. I've managed to get through all 8 episodes in short time, so it can't be that terrible. Not sure if I like this whole Hogwarts makeup. Also a bit too much teenage romance stuff, but guess I'm simply too old for that target audience. Performance of the main cast was good, imo. I also liked how the rest of the Addams family was shown. Was a bit confused about how much they cared about some random murder, though. That said, I'm not exactly deep into Addams Family lore, so maybe that's just me. /Edit: So funny how they keep doing those inclusive typecasts. Every show is the same nowadays.

Some updates: Conversation & Quest node links can now be deleted, just click the red button: If there's only one remaining link to a node, a confirmation popup will be displayed. If the last link to a node is deleted, the node will still remain in the Nodes list but won't be accessible from the GUI. (I'm not sure that I want to implement some clean-up logic here, maybe at some point expose a list of all nodes and let the user manually delete unplaced nodes from there?) Regarding String Tables (including some stuff I've not documented yet because lazyness) If a mod has StringTable entries with indexes that exceed the highest vanilla indexes, then the lowest of those indexes would be used as the "mod start index". If the user tries to add a new entry and a start index hasn't been detected, a new value between 1'000'000 and 2'000'000'000 will be assigned instead. (Always ending with '000' to indicate in the stringtable files that it's the start index). After that, the new StringTable entries will be added starting from that index. High values and wide ranges are necessary to minimize the risk of mods generating overlapping keys, but won't look nice in the editor... I've now made it so that if a start index is detected, entries exceeding that number will be shortened down to "k+x" in the gamedata editor, where x is the offset from the start index. An example from Spoils of Caed Nua:

Meanwhile, Inside the Box, Schrodinger’s Cat Plans Its Revenge…

First off, are you ok after dealing with the flooding? I'm sorry that you've been experiencing the cloud sync bug while playing Grounded. The team is aware of this issue, and they have developed a solution, and we hope to have it in the upcoming patch. We've created a Grounded Issue Tracker and a Feature Board to keep players informed on bugs and upcoming features. Please bear with us while we work to keep the issues updated with the most recent information.