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... I know the (hilarious) intro is a comedic video edit, but - did some quirky AI take over this guy's brain? Seriously, some of those quotes.

Even after four decades, you just can't get it out of yer head. (Later on I had one of those Action Replay cartridges though. Came with a turbo loader as well as simply hitting the C64's F-keys to shortcut the "loading routines".) Oh man, SKALD is actually good. I mean real good. It feels like those oldies but with updates where needed: No bloat, just an intriguing setup and off ya go. It's a narrative heavy game, too, but it doesn't drown you in exposition. I'd rather play focused games like these than a 100 hour campaign full of filler. The character system is complex enough, the battles are about the same. There's even a simple faction system in place. What kills it though is the vibe the guy was going for and manages to hit. Sure, it's pixels. But there's a skill check fairly early on whether your character can withstand the stench of rotting corpses in a cave... succeed, and all is well. Fail, and get a debuff 'til resting. This isn't a "poop your pants" kinda game. It's rather all very oppressive and feels like uncovering dark ancient secrets in the best of ways. There's even dynamic weather (and of course day/night cycles), with the island you visit apparently being fogged permanently. Clearly, the oft expressed notion that horror kinda themes and RPG's inherent level-up kinda power fantasy wouldn't gell is nonsense. Then substantial companies had shown such in the 1980s and 1990s. They just stopped trying it mostly with Bloodlines.

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The maulers of undermountain!

Truly shocked the Beeb banned this

For gaming it's really just either a 7600 non-X or a 7800X3D really. Occasionally the 7600X will be discounted to within say, $10-20 of the non-X, but there's only a few percent between them. Both are very efficient, cool-running chips so motherboard selection isn't all that crucial. Impossible to make any firm recommendations without seeing prices, but over here the best value mainstream picks will be boards like the MSI B650M Gaming Plus and the Gigabyte B650M DS3H. Upper-midrange picks will be the MSI B650 Tomahawk, Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite and Asus TUF B650-PLUS. Depending on whether your current Intel board is a DDR4 or DDR5 version, you may also need new RAM. The general pick for AMD will be a 6000MT/s CL30 kit.

So how does one find this kind of stuff?

good find!

One of the first Doctor Who companions, William Russell who played school teacher Ian Chesterton, at 99: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-william-russell-dies-newsupdate/

I know this is just a gag thread, but having done some cyber security courses for my job, the vendor had a video covering a study that says goatse, 'rickrolling' and other famous meme link gags - has not improved cybersecurity awareness across the world's population. Surprised me.

What should I get if I wanted to go Ryzen. My motherboard just died with a nefarious "disconnect your drives, a system failure may be imminent" message. I have an rx7900xtx and I figure it's too early to swap that out. The cpu could be salvaged, but it's a 12th gen intel core I 5, it was cheap at the time, and it doesn't feel very upgrady to buy a b660 chipset in 2024.