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Alone in the Dark original trilogy as a Giveaway on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/news/alone_in_the_dark_trilogy_giveaway_as_a_celebration_of_what_we_achieved_together

Just released a mod that reworks the Watcher abilities (...of Death's Herald and ...of the Lost abilities) slightly on the Nexus. I was tired of them just taking up space on my abilities bar only to get used zero times ever. The most notable changes are that the abilities are no longer 1/rest, instead you refresh their use through dealing damage or getting kills. The afflictions caused by the upgraded abilities are now also upgraded on crit. There are some other minor changes as well which are all explained in the description on the mod's Nexus page.

am wondering if texas republicans are concerned about their redistricting efforts, which were largely influenced by trump's improvement with latino voters and assumed latino indifference during midterms. New congressional maps will test the Latino vote in the 2026 election "Republicans are banking on their gains with Hispanic voters" given the way they designed the new districts in Texas, one analyst noted. and is a whole lotta time 'tween now and the mid-terms. will dems also tyson fury themselves as they has done so frequent in recent years? will trump invoke the insurrection act or use some other means to interfere with the elections? dunno, but for the moment, the primary rationale for much o' the tx redistricting looks to be far less certain that it were last summer... and even then it were kinda iffy. @Gorth we make frequent jokes about our contemplation o' a smaug portfolio. reality is we only have a small amount in gold... but a fair amount in silver even though it is more volatile than gold. am s'posing is because silver tends to be more volatile that we bought it. at the close o' market on a day in march o' 2020, we discovered that we had been cosplaying as nelson bunker hunt without even realizing it. gonna admit to having completely forgoten about the rather insane buy order we had for silver. ... serious considered unretiring that day. HA! Good Fun!

Yeah, I noticed a few days ago, the internet was awash with end of the world for gold and silver trader messages. Australia's ABC News speculate it because of the uncertainty around the US Feds independence and some have conspiracy theories like this guy... I honestly don't know enough about the big picture to have an opinion of my own

Einstein’s Speed of Light Rule Just Faced Its Toughest Test—and Prevailed Once Again - The Debrief

Damn The Dems won a race for state senate in Texas in a R+20 area that's possibly the hotbed of Christian Nationalism in the US, where the Republican outspent them to an absurd degree, and where Trump himself tried to stir up magats to the polls. Only a special election and we're 9 months out from the midterms, but I would never have bet on this happening.

I upgraded AM4 one last time from an older Ryzen 3 a while ago. Back then, the 5700X3D was still around (for ~200 EUR). As I'm never looking for a higher end experience, this was a no-brainer decision: The 5700X3D thus cost twice as much as the 5600, but is nowhere close to providing twice the performance. X3Ds are great chips if you want the extra performance. But I'm actually surprised that they are so popular. They're clearly sold as enthusiast chips -- and as any enthusiast hardware (RTX 4090/5090 etc.), you're also PAYING extra. Guess that people are figuring that they still have much lower price tags then the best GPUs (true) and just go: "Ah, who cares!" :D And naturally, on AM4, they're now forever the fastest gaming chips around, driving up demand all by itself.

Yeah, there are only few titles for which CPU is a bottleneck (Cyberpunk being one of them). I wish Ryzen would resurrect m4 3d chips, but I am good as it is. A friend of mine convinced me to double down on my irresponsible spendings and swap my 27inch 1440p IPS for 32inch 4k QD-OLED. Visual gains vary from game to game - games with a lot of dark and contrast benefit the most from OLEDs true darks. One thing which surprised me is how little performance gap there is between 2k and 4k thanks to DLSS - In 1440p anything below quality preset would be noticeable and even quality sometimes showed some ugly bits. With 4k though, I can easily use balanced and have a better image quality then I did in 1440p, and on performance it seems to be more or less on par with quality in 1440p. I was a bit disappointed with the performance I was getting with my 5070 Ti when I turn raytracing on in Cyberpunk and Alan Wake2. I mean it is mostly playable now, but still seems like mostly novelty feature for high end GPUs. To compare I resubscribed for a month to GamePass to try the mandatory Raytracing games: Indiana Jones and new Doom. Both look stunning and run like butter. Unless I turn on Pathtracing - Pathtracing cuts my framerate by 2/3rds. Eh, I will see with time if it was a wise investments or if the RAM panic will blow over and I have overspend for an unpgrade I didn’t need just yet. The screen is nice though. Probably will enhance my experience more overall than the GPU.

Hi, single class Shifter isn't super appealing imo because the PL 8 and 9 abilities for Spiritshift aren't that great. In my experience the Shifter is more enjoyable when multiclassed. Here there a a lot of options which all work well and are fun to play, usually it's a combo of Shifter+martial class because of the spellcasting restriction when shifted: Shifter/Goldpact Knight - great AR with zero recovery penalty because of Paladin passives + Gilded Enmity (which is kind of free if you combine with Sworn Rival) + natural armor (especially Bear form). Eternal Flames stacks with Wildstrike lashes, Ring of Focused Flames gives extra +10 acc, Sacred Immolation + Nature's Terror is fantastic late game AoE dmg while in melee. Also nice with Steel Garotte but needs afflictions on enemies then to unlock life drain. So cast some affliction stuff before going in (Relentless Storm or Tanglefoot etc.). Shifter/Helwalker - higher speed and shocking lash from Lightning Strikes, burning lash from Turning Wheel, both stack with Wildstrike, +10 INT prolongs Spiritshift, +15 MIG (Helwalker's passive + Thunderous Blows) boost dmg and self-heal (pets, inter-shift), +10 INT/+15 MIG are fantastic for the Boar form because the shifter variant of the board form has a Wounding DoT lash that has the base duration of the spiritshift, not the usual one. Also great for any spellcasting between/before shifts (Relentless Storm or Plague of Insects and especially Moonwell - or whatever). Stunning Surge is a great attack ability and so are Efficient Anguish or Torment's Reach. Shifter/Trickster or Streetfighter - simple synergies due to high dmg bonuses from Sneak Attack etc. combined with Wildstrike lashes, no e Full Attack strikes sich as Crippling Strike and so on and nice mobility bc. of Escape. Streetfighter has a lot of potential with dmg (but has to be flanked AND blooded to unlock fully, pick human race to profit even more), Trickster with defense. Shifter/Furyshaper or Berserker - fast attack speed, some melee dmg bonuses (Blooded, One Stands Alone), added engagement via Barbaric Shout, added DoT with Blood Frenzy or terrify with Spirit Tornado, AR bonus (Thick Skinned), nice finisher Full Attack (Barbaric Smash), awesome mobility with Wild Sprint and especially when Leap becomes available. Berserker has higher dmg potential but also self dmg (use human race and Blooded to profit) and Furyshaper has nasty CC (Fear Ward). Shifter/Stalker - very high accuracy, added defense and AR, Boar form unlocks Predator's Sense of the Animal Companion automatically, nice Full Attack abilities (Wounding Shot but also the Hunter's Claw stuff) and of course an additional body on the battlefield which you can use to always flank enemies and thus apply -10 deflection and -1 AR to them (as well as Stalker's Link). During or before shifts you can use the awesome single target dmg combo Takedown Combo (+100% dmg for the next attack) + Sunlance. Shifter/Bloodmage - despite the spell casting restriction this works nicely in the early and mid game where you cast lots of the fast self-buffs with the Wizard, then shift and do melee. Late in the game it's extremely good because you can combine Wall of Draining (prolongs Spiritshift and all buffs and benefical effects, including healing over time and stuff like damaging aura spells - so you don't have to pause shift ever) with Zandethu's Draconic Fury (use Blood Sacrifice to get back the highest tier spell uses) and Citzal's Martial Power at last (cannot cast while shifted anyway). For lulz you can also use the Transmuter subclass and trade a bit of power for an additional shift form: into an Ogre. :)

Chunks are way to small

Finished Shadow of the Erdtree. Radhan was such a bitch that I decided to cheese him in the end. I don't feel bad about it, this phase two is worse than Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne. That one at least felt fair. Game is still beautiful, also really damn long. Probably the longest Souls game there is so far. The DLC map was a bit of a mixed bag. While looking great everywhere, it had some areas that felt incredibly rich in detail and then there were some areas that have been nothing but looks. Barely any consumables even. Not sure if they were running out of time for those areas, or if they exist to add more "depth" to the world. A bit like in a heroes journey, you know, where you don't just fight and loot all the time, you also travel and have slow downs. It's ok, I guess. Just noticed that those places showed up quite often in mid- and late-game. Thinking of going into NG+ but not sure yet... I kinda want to... but it for sure will take a couple years then to unlock everything again.

Finished the Silver Spike. So far the weakest book for me. Although I liked the epilogue very much.

Started playing Songs of Conquest, and now I just want to go replay Wrath of the Righteous.

Ah well, it was long shot. Probably your best bet would be: https://support.obsidian.net/#contact If the widget doesn't show up click "Contact" at the top of the page.

Zen3's still doing pretty okay even without 3D cache. PS5 Pro is still based on Zen2. And the PS6 may be delayed to 2029+... The Real Finewine Strikes Again: Ryzen 5600X, 5700X & 5800XT Revisit Alternatively, do it like me: Say f*ck you to the PC specs rat race and go Indie entirelly --- until KCD3 is out. What lousy deal is it to pay 300% more for 5% better graphics these days anyway? HEAR ME OUT: On tomorrow's market of every game looking as boring as Hollywood and Netflix, pixels as big as Texas are the real treat anyhow. :D

At risk of taking this post into WOT territory I'm relieved to see you still posting and in apparent good spirits.

My Steam "favorites" list currently/for a while has seven games that are in blue text, stating "update required/paused." To which I say - not right now/not ready, and then go Offline again when I'm done doing whatever I went "online" for. Tainted Grail: I liked the original release quite well, but the DLC didn't appeal - I bought it because it was a King Arthur-legend type game, not an undersea/cthulhu (or whatever) legends game. Oh I'm sure the Arthur lore is in there somewhere. But you know what I mean. But I keep it installed in case I ever want to replay the older/non-patched vanilla version I have backed up. I'm still waiting for a Stray 2. :P

Kind of rage quiet Octopath Traveler. Got to the very end, and find that not only do I have to grind through 8 mini-bosses (takes about 30min?) to get a go at the final boss, I can't save so presumably if I fail I'll have to start all over again, and I suddenly need all 8 of my characters which I haven't so far at any point of the game. Bah. Maybe I'll get back to it at some point, dunno.

Billion-times more efficient fusion unlocked with low-frequency laser

I've found if you put them in a crafted Nest it will save them. But, still the issue of when you log out, they disappear from your selection wheel. You then have to go to the Nest and find the one you were using and pull it back out. It will then show up in your wheel. My issue is if you logout, crash, or even die, the buggy will be back in the Nest and not linked to you anymore. You then have to go BACK to the Nest and pull them out yet again, which is a pain when you rode it all the way across the map, just to crash, come back in, and walk all the way back just to get your ant again.

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