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**EDIT June 5, 2020** Hello everyone! As Steam has changed the start date for the Steam Game Festival to June 16th, we will be changing the Xbox Insider Flight to match that date so all of our players can play the game simultaneously. You will now be able to experience the tiny taste of Grounded starting June 16th through June 22nd. We can't wait to see you in the backyard then! Want more Grounded information? Then be sure to join our Discord community! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello everyone! Are you ready to get a tiny taste of the single-player experience? Then get ready, because the Xbox Insider flight now has a date! But wait, there's more! Grounded will also be participating in the Steam Game Festival at the same time! Starting June 16th 9th and extending through June 22nd 14th, BOTH the Xbox Insider flight and Steam Game Festival will start, and you will be able to play a demo of Grounded! On June 9th, Grounded flight will appear on the Xbox Insider Hub for those in the Xbox Insider Program to download. There are a limited number of downloads allowed for this flight and it will be on a first-come first-serve basis. We will announce the opening of the flight on our Twitter page, so if you aren't following us already now is the perfect time to do so! Participating in the Insider flight will also be the only way you will be able to play this demo on your Xbox console, so if you are an Xbox console player this is something to keep in mind. To participate in the Steam Game Festival, starting June 9th you will be able to download and play the same demo that will be released on the flight. You will need to have a Steam account to play, and that's it! We are excited to have you all here on this journey with us, and look forward to getting you all in the game for this single-player demo! See you in the backyard soon!

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Even as we speak, the little lady is teaching her class from home. I saw some posts earlier and intended to reply if I had a slow night at work. Nope. I had two patients med out to higher acuity facilities. Insane! ...And it's not the nurses choice. I don't want to describe the situations because I try to be extra careful about patient information, even though I'm anonymous. I guess I have at least one person here who knows where I work, but I trust them implicitly and I doubt they frequent this part of the sandbox anyway. Still, have to respect privacy. ...But if I could tell! Anyhow, I appreciate the pushback. Always interesting to read people's views. Even Gromnir's, and he's about the only person who manages to get under my skin from time to time. The only thing I want to mention is the hamster mask study from... Hong Kong? I can't remember, but it entailed putting fabric between cages and blowing a fan through it. I've never denied that masks help stop droplet transmission. I think a one time use mask donned for single patient encounters is manifestly wise and evidence based practice. My point is that the way that people wear the masks makes them considerably less useful than suggested. When the cages sprout hands and start readjusting their masks, I'll buy into the theory. I don't have a lot of 10 year bets, but I'm betting the usefulness of masks will be proved considerably less effective over time when we identify all of the variables in actual practical use of a mask over extended periods of time. I know medical professionals, nurses, therapists, and doctors, who wash their outside masks like once a week and it's *impossible* not to need to adjust a mask multiple times over that period. As it is, the studies keep coming and I think we need time to sift through them and see which ones are best. After all, another of my ten year bets was that this preoccupation with surfaces was silly, and time is bearing that out already, although 10 years is 10 years. Gotta play by the rules I set when I made my bets. Hopefully I have the time to read through all the posts I've missed, but I couldn't even catch up on the stuff up to now. So, if you have a really clever mean thing to say, wait until the weekend!

I lived in South Florida for many years up to 2009. I knew many Cuban folks who fled Castro there. I love when people who had never been there explained to them what it was "really" like. Those were usually the same ones who tried to tell them was communism was "really" like too. Usually they would just look at you like you were a particularly unpleasant mentally handicapped child that just crapped your pants.

Probably why it sold so good and had good marks.

I still like how this topic says "Maia suddenly attacks me" and then the topics explains how he murdered all Rautaians including the Hazanui and then sided with their biggest rival the VTC. I mean I would consider it a bug if Maia doesn't turn on you after you kill the Hazanui or any of the other primary RDC members.

What was particularly annoying about the gating in D:OS was that the game initially gave you the illusion of being a lot more open. It seems at first as if you're free too wander wherever you like, only to encounter enemies that you can't possibly beat blocking a path. It would have been preferable for the game to be more honest about its linearity instead of pretending otherwise.

Doesn't surprise me that there's a significant amount of actual dislike for the DOS games. (I've only played the first but the 2nd is said to be similar in structure). Apart of the narrative stuff: Their entire world design is essentially one tactical combat puzzle (where do I go next, and how do I deal with the foes there?). With areas being strictly level gated in an extremely linear fashion (due to how hugely damage scales with levels/items). Also google "Level Maps original sin" if you want to see what I mean in a Picture. The Pillars game, whilst they have lots of combat, are nothing like that. Sure, you can meet opposition yet too strong, but there's usually a) several places to go next and come back later (not all with a heavy focus on combat) and b) progress isn't always halted by opposition deliberately placed straight into your pathway. Additionally, you can actually beat opposition above your tier every once in a while, whilst on DOS, it's oft a straight party wipe. I've pointed this out probably before, but Larian Marketing found more of an overlap with the audience of tactical game's such as X-Com than with Pillars.

Yes it is far, my normal weekly walk is basically the same distance as you do about 2.1 miles But this long walk takes you around some local mountains in Cpt and down to the beach ....its beautiful and very scenic

Your post made me want to finish the game, after dropping it months ago in boredom. It's less than I expected (mechanically) but maybe the story redeems it. I guess I'll have to find out.

I'm running about 25 miles a week and everything hurts. But it is still easier than trying to homeschool my kids.

12 km = 7.4 miles!!! I too have been taking a stroll every day weather permitting, but Im only averaging 2.2 miles per walk.

Happy Birthday to our buddies Pac Man, Inky, Blinky, Pinky, & Clyde. They are 40 years old today!

I would be motivated if I could do something about it with regards to PoE2. In this sense I couldn't, but it wasn't just that. It's mostly the extremely poor implementation of the Eothas questline. It's almost like Fallout 4 where you have to find your son, but get sidetracked by this immense open world where you can build cities and do other things that are far more interesting than the main plot. Was I motivated to find my son in FO4? Yes for the first 10 minutes... was I motivated to do something about by castle being destroyed and me losing... wait who died again at my castle? Did the MC mourn any of them? At what point do we do something about this? I lost motivation about 10 mins in again. With PoE1 I got this soul of another person awakening inside my head. Maybe they could have done more about that, but having a different person in your head does make me want to find out what's up with that. Especially if some weirdo with a crown is turning on ancient devices that caused this to happen to me in the first place. I agree that non of the stories are particularly well implemented, but I found the Thaos story much more enthralling than Eothas. To each his/her own.

I had no idea this was in development, but it just released and I'm super excited to play it once the Linux version comes out. I'm loving the recent mini-revival of FMV games and I thoroughly enjoyed this company's last game The Shapeshifting Detective, which introduced the Poe & Munro characters.

In my view, Beast of Winter is the best-told story in the whole of Deadfire, by some distance. So yes, there is.

Apologies if I wasn't specific enough above. I was referring to veteran game developers. People who have been making video games for a long time and are using the artistic medium of storytelling to explore the things that are relevant to them now. Pavarti's plot might be lost on you because you're dismissing it as teenage drama rather than a young woman who is developmentally arrested by the loss of her parents. Or put another way: a young woman who is unable to engage with her life now because of things that have happened to her in the past. You, as the player, now have the opportunity to help her move past all that and live in the present. You'll be able to do that with each of the companions, except their traumas and reconciliations will look different because the writers are all exploring variations on that theme rather than copy/pasting like bad/lazy writers would. As someone over the age of 40, I imagine that you may have had a time in your life where you let a child-like fear of rejection and/or vulnerability prevent you from "shooting your shot". I imagine you may have looked back on that time with some amount of regret. You may have even used it as a newfound source of confidence. I imagine the writers were hoping to engage your empathy here and maybe give you some sort of emotional kinship with this character and her place in the story. But clearly they failed.

Early '98. So yeah, very much two decades ago.

Listen to Steve's conclusion. If you want the absolute highest FPS in games get this CPU. Also he struggled to see scaling in many gaming benchmarks. You can force scaling, by lowering the resolution and settings. You're never going to be using those settings. Ask yourself if a 10600K makes more real world sense, and check out that review and how well that stacks up against AMD. In certain circumstances yes, but in most others a 3600 for ~$90 less and spending more money on a GPU makes more sense.

The number of people who spend 2000+USD on a rig to play Tomb Raider at 1080p low quality is not overly large. Way more realistic offerings from Intel, certainly, and they seem to have finally acknowledged that Zen changed the game in desktop semi permanently. A lot of the senseless segmentation like gating HT has gone, not before time. End of the day though it's basically the same thing Intel has offered since 2016 (well 2017, for the 10 core 7900k) with a price drop, marginally better clocks and a lot more juice required. They will probably also have the same supply issues they currently have outside the US. Should also be noted, Linus got unusually low temps/ wattage for his 10900k, others got considerably higher wattage.

Sweden also will suffer unseen complication, as all other Nordic countries and Baltic countries have decided lift travel restrictions for each other citizens, but travel for people from Sweden is restricted until time that infection levels in Sweden are in same level as they are in other Nordic countries and in Baltic states. So at least for now favorite son of north has become a black sheep.

You say it as if it is a bad thing. Anyway. I played LOTRO a little years ago and starter areas were all fun, but as soon as you leave them it's ten bear arses quests all the way down. SWTOR, my choice of lowbrow gaming, is much better about that.

Funny story. Wheaton has likely not seen that scene (from Q-Less), because he went with a DS9 watching guide that leaves it out, for his first time through the show. I'd say Q makes for fun -if not necessarily good- Trek so that makes it worth recommending especially as it's the only appearance of the character in the entire show, but what do I know. So yeah, pretty much the opposite of a Trek authority as majestic said. In his defense (ugh), I don't think he's never presented himself as one.

Civilization VI now free on EGS!

Y'know I just noticed this sub forum has the description - "A discussion forum concerning the best and worst single-player games" , hah. Such ingrained snobbery

......You have no idea what you're talking about. Proof: I'm Cuban born, we do have unemployment, we have homeless and we have persona no grata that do not even make into the books, so they're barely citizens. Rich people do well everywhere, there are a bunch of people that retire to third world countries where the dollar is still worth something and they can live a good live. That doesn't make those countries better.

Yeah. They did exactly the same thing after SARS original- and lifted the ban quietly a year later. It's like that children story with that Chinese Premier that eats too much honey and gets stuck in his rabbit friend's burrow entrance, you can be told not to eat any more, you can say that you're not going to eat any more, but then you see those delicious looking pangolins and bats and mmm, novel zoonotic pathogen redux.

Gentlemen, behold! My aural depression button!

This one kind of creeped me out, but here's another Game Informer video with an early "bestiary" of insects... XBox One's are very affordable now so hopefully Truly Yours doesn't spend too much.

Hi, wondering if someone could do a watercolor of this:

Another 5 minutes of game play w/commentary from Game Informer. Enjoy.

Made another attempt, using the nexus guide and adding some photocopy filters. Think it turned out a lot better.

Female orlan. I don't know, I just didn't like the original hairstyle, so I did this

Coincidentally, after watching 50,000 hours of Pac-Man, Nvidia’s AI generated a playable clone.