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Started Outer Worlds 2 (using Gamepass) and played through the tutorial. It was great. The graphics are improved from the original. So far so good. I don't think it will win you over if you didn't like the original, but it seems like a solid sequel so far.

I signed up for a full Ironman with my wife. I did one in 2019 in Santa Rosa and it was pretty miserable. It took me 15 hours. I had a good swim, an ok bike, but terrible run. My stomach was a mess and I walked most of it. Anyways, my wife watched me suffer and has been bugging me for the last 6 years to do one with her. So we signed up for Ironman California, which is in Sacramento. It is still a year away. We volunteered at the race this year and paddle boarded for the swimmers in support. The swim looks amazing, it is downstream and should be fast. It also looks like a fun run snaking around the Capitol Mall. But now that I've paid for it, I'm in training mode, and that is a different lifestyle. I'm not out of shape, but I'll be pretty much doubling my training hours over the next year. It should be fun. I hope I can nail the nutrition this time.

I bought the deluxe edition, beat the tutorial, got no bonus packs. deleted and re-download 3 times, play thru tutorial again and still no dlc. please help, I did give you 100 dollars it would be nice to actually receive some content.

Indeed, it is way better to have a vindictive, narcissitic asshat with the intelligence of a seven year old as POTUS. Or worse, imagine if Biden had become president and stepped aside after his cancer diagnosis, it'd be a mixed race femoid with a weird laugh running the country. Unthinkable.

Sometimes a solid sequel is all we need. Just have more fun of the fun we were already having.

"Saga of the Malfunctioning Mechanicals" quest stays in the active section of the Journal under "Mentioned" even after Hogarth moves to Fairfield. Quest becomes impossible to complete even after acquiring the parts it asks for.

There's some setting that fudges the dice and is intended to help avoid chains of bad rolls, in practice it seems to make rolls worse (or at least more "average"), turning it off seemed to at least improve things for me. May be in my head, may not be, there's been evidence collected to indicate the former, but since Larian doesn't disclose how the setting atually works and kept updating it there's no telling how accurate that evidence still is. Anyway, may want to try turning it off (it's on by default) and see if that improves things for you, it did for me.

After reaching level 18 the flaw Easily distracted enforces the negative and let's me only add points to the lowest skill, but the benefit of 3 skill points is not working anymore.

Same on my end. Went to the location, text popped, but no audio and no Severin to be found. Completed other quests, changed region and planet, checked on other communication devices, but no luck making him appear.

There is no interst to explore this world. World is dead.NPC's dont react even when i steal their stuuf infront of them. They just stand around doing nothing.Not even smallest simulation of life. I dont want why i bother nobody cares.This game is dead on release. I could point a few things but i dont thing anyone will listen. 1:Backpacks.All kinds must be added. From small pouches to big ones if you need to carry your supplies with you.Such as ammo food and drinks.And distributed among npc's. 2:survival mod where drinking eating and sleeping is a must. 3:Day night cycle. 4:Timescale same as real world. 5:Make this world alive.NPC's must atleast react when i rob them blind.Also move around All of them must be doing their stuff.Repairing guarding working. Again this world same is aboba.Its dead. Also may be obsidian will give players some toolkit or something to make full scale mods. Games where modding is not allowed die quickly.I mean people still play STALKER. Save this game if you care.

This thread really is quite slow when I'm not around... So, quote for the day: "In America you call it the Alt Right. In Germany, we call it 'Why Grandpa lives in Argentina Now.'"

You make the mistake of thinking that Trump is the only one who is the problem here. It's all the people behind Trump that are the problem. You can't compare this with the Biden side, like, at all. It's pure and unfiltered greed. If Trump would die tomorrow, nothing would change. They'll just turn him into this mystical godlike figure and keep on keeping on. You have to get rid of the entire upper echelon of the GOP and I doubt that's ever going to happen. That said, I really need to stop engaging with you when it comes to Trump. Your incredibly consistent naïveté (I googled how to write that, I think it's a nice word) everything Trump related gives me serious rage. That's master level political trolling.

am so not embracing the biden v. trump cognitive race to the bottom. neither one 'o them shoulda' been running for President in to 2024. we mentioned multiple times how we wouldn't trust either one 'o them behind the wheel o' a car or working a gas stove, so why on earth would we think they were up to handling the office o' President? am thinking it's possible that most o' the biden team had genuine convinced themselves that he could still handle the duties of President in 2024, 'cause people are capable o' all kinda self-delusion and goal post shifting when confronted with tough choices. what am not able to accept is that the biden folks thought joe could manage another four years, and if that is the case, then multiple people shoulda' stepped forward to insist on a traditional primary. should never have needed get to the debate performance. am not letting the biden folks off the hook. they doomed democrats by not convincing biden to step away and let somebody else be the democrat candidate. unlike biden, trump is the one who shows legit signs o' dementia as 'posed to just old age, but so what? biden were looking very old, too old to be President. nevertheless, biden weren't a threat to democracy who had already tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. biden were not a convicted felon who had, according to grand jury testimony of his own lawyers, attempted to prevent federal agents from retrieving top secret documents from mar-a-lago where he directed multiple persons to destroy evidence o' his interaction with those documents. biden were never found liable for sexual assault/digital rape. biden weren't talking about the enemy within and a mass deportation o' 20 million people, which is the approximate population of ny state. etc. elections is usually a lesser of evils choice. the thing is, biden were old and NOT on the ballot at the time of the election. we didn't much like kamala harris either, but compared to trump? even if all the republican fever dreams 'bout harris were born out, the worst case scenario for 2025 is... what exact? with a republican house, senate and this Court, harris wouldn't have been executive ordering her way to through the charred embers of the Constitution even if she had immunity from prosecution. so maybe a few more trans athletes competing in girls/women's sports? economically, what could she have done that were worse than trump's tariffs idiocy? and again, am a fiscal conservative, so am most certain not embracing many o' the progressive suggestions regarding economic change, but the US did better than virtual the rest o' the world post pandemic and is not as if the biden folks had implemented a communist takeover while nobody were looking. with biden out of the race and none o' those pesky age/capacity concerns at play with harris, it were difficult for us to see why a traditional free market conservative would vote for trump instead o' harris... even if we were able to ignore the rape, felonies, obstruction, mass deportation and "enemy within" crap from trump, which we couldn't. but yeah, the biden folks had to know he weren't fit to be President for another four years... and? HA! Good Fun!

Well, his and his doctor's. It's probably the most detailed section of the report, for whatever that's worth, since it mentions no less than three specific tests. It is perhaps relevant that you don't tend to get people saying Trump's doctors think he has anxiety or depression, which were the other two tests he took along with the MoCA. It's pretty clearly so a damned if you do, damned if you don't for Trump. Whatever he does people are going to think it's evidence he has dementia. If he takes a test it's because his doctors think he's got dementia. But if he doesn't take one then that's because he's trying to hide his dementia instead and he'd probably end up taking one anyway. He certainly has signs of mental decline, but that is what inevitably happens to old people. 14 for Trump, 20 for Biden. Number and even quality doesn't necessarily correlate to effectiveness though, given those 20 medical professionals missed Biden's cancer. In terms of a neurologist specifically, Biden's campaign claimed he'd seen one three times during his presidency, by way of comparison. Don't really want to write a thesis level analysis but quick and dirty: cognitive tests like the MoCA are useful because they're quick- and if you're seeing 14 or 20 specialists in a day that is important, same as it is if you're seeing a dozen patients a day- and a litmus test for a specific symptom. Dementia can be hard to diagnose from 'physical' tests, in part because it isn't actually a disease per se but a symptom of (a) disease(s) (or other cause) such as Alzheimer's/ Parkinson's/ ischaemia/ TBI etc. eg my dad had no direct physical symptoms at all when he was diagnosed despite two MRIs.

Seeing melathi's post about Hogwarts Legacy I decided to give it ago before Outer Worlds2. Yeah, I liked it more then I expected. I thought they managed to capture the universe rather well. Definitely the amount of murdering player does feels rather odd. And while I mostly found story to be fairly alright, there were couple points I felt the inability to react to things felt really odd. Main character doesn't really have a personality but the game also doesn't allow players to express themselves in spite of conversation options. There were quite a few things, especially in the latter part of the game, were I feel characters just move on from some things that really asked to be brought up. Overall, better then I expected. As I enjoyed early Harry Potter books and films in primary school, HL managed to pull my nostalgia strings. Started Outer Worlds2 - looks promising so far. Opening mission promised reactivity that I missed in the original game had. Adding to it the overall buzz around the game, I think I will enjoy this one.

Really would be great to get some update about this from Obsidian. It's the most upvoted issue by far.

"Trump has unveiled a number of moves aimed at cutting drug prices in recent months, but he has yet to move the needle on reducing costs – much less slashing them by 1,500%, which is mathematically impossible, experts say." ... experts say? experts? why not just ask a random fourth grader? am curious why the obvious question regarding the MoCA administered by walter reed doctors as part o' a trump exam is never asked: why did doctors feel it were prudent to have trump take the MoCA? is not a standard test for seventy-somethings. the fact doctors had trump take the test should be worrisome to people, but somehow that fact gets lost. tell us that his most recent PET scan is clear wouldn't raise alarms? 'course you would be curious as to why he were getting PET scans, right? PET scans is not routine. MoCA is similar not ordinary. trump bragging about acing the test is signature trump stoopid, but it should concern everybody that doctors had reason to administer the test. we were in the room when the test were administered to our +80 father following his TIA. *shrug* keep in mind that the media mocking trump for his ignorance and stoopidity is one o' the reasons he is so popular, as insane as that sounds. maga is about outrage and grievance... maga is the real victims in 2025. the perception that smarty-pants libs has been mocking working class americans for their lack o' education is one reason why they vote for trump. 47 is overt ignorant, unapologetically bigoted... and he is a winner. is a curiously seductive combination for too many americans. trump is using his voters and likely hates 'em, but maga loves trump 'cause he is their retribution. https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/user-clip-i-am-your-retribution/5100721 maga identifies with trump not in spite o' his ignorance and bigotry but 'cause o' such. maga loves trump 'cause he is shameless and vindictive. lord help us. HA! Good Fun!

The worst part is the complete lack of communication from Obsidian. Under investigation for 3 days... and that's it !

Same here, made an account for this reason.

Hi dev team, First of all, thank you for Outer Worlds 2 – I’m really enjoying the game overall. I wanted to report an accessibility issue with the “Run and Hitter” perk. The visual effect that appears when this perk is active (the screen blur shaken effect) makes me feel very uncomfortable and motion-sick. Would it be possible to add an option in the settings to Disable the visual effect for this perk. I know not everyone is affected, but for players sensitive to motion or visual effects, this would make a huge difference and let us keep using the perk without feeling sick. Thanks a lot for reading and for considering this!

N-Ray door switches won't work, no interaction at all, when I first tried they worked, so I entered the room only to be killed by the invisible cultists, then I found the scanner went back to the switches to open the door nothing!! , I've restarted the game, I've done to many quests to go back to a save, game over!!

Niles doesnt construct the explosive to breach the vault door and becomes bugged instead making me stuck in the mission Do More Harm

Have you downloaded the update? If you've done that it all shows up after completing the introductory quest. I'm ps5 too, and it's all there now.

I watched Vinland Saga on Hulu; it wasn't bad for a semi-historical drama (and it lacked anything resembling anime goofiness). Unfortunately, the second season isn't available yet.

At least he passed away peacefully in his sleep. May he rest in burrito.

Playing some Daggerfall with the Unity patch is pretty great.

Omg thank you! You summed up my main problem perfectly! The only way it justifies no longer doing damage with your weapon is if you can then do massive damage with a spell, which you can’t when the cipher takes a while to cast it (opportunity cost, not doing anything = 0 dps and also tanks burst damage, until he finally casts) , or doing amazing CC, which you need to do RIGHT NOW usually, not in 10 seconds when I gathered enough focus and finish smelling the roses for the spell to finally cast. passive retaliation focus would have solved this amazingly well. Pity. as always, thanks for the insight. Also, I guess no ciphers in my future lol, I’ll learn to live with my disappointment by having a Druid murder everything with storms

yes!!! Its so frustrating, I wish there was at least a list of fast travel points that we could pick from or something.

Hi, I'm not sure where to report bugs, but there's a visual issue with the Scoundrel Aegis armor — part of the right leg becomes invisible when the armor is equipped.

I can't progress this quest. Im on PS5 and the game has the latest patch installed! To continues the Faction Quest "An Equitable Arrangement" I have to complete the Side Quest as mentioned in the title. To do this I have to interrogate the Man in the Moon Mask. After I start the dialogue I have two options. The standard and a Professor option. No matter what I choose the next dialogue options are the standard one and one that needs 9 observation. What I don't have. After being forced to choose the first option I get another dialogue option. The standart one, a professor option and a Science 9 one. I dont have 9 science. So stuck with either of the other two options. But no matter what combination I choose or companions I bring along. I am left with the "Think I will slink away option." In other words I cannot progress this side quest or the Faction quest that's tied into this one. According to the patch notes, this quest was patched. But it seems it not. Am I missing something or am I screwed? Not having enough points in specific skills should not force you out of a side or faction quest!

+1

I didn't make it myself but I also had a pulled pork BBQ sandwich with Carolina Gold sauce and apple coleslaw.

I've started a replay of BG3 as well, a few days ago. Getting close to Act 2 again, and I'm having way more fun with the game now than the first time, just because I know now how everything works, and how to best use the environment for my advantage. I think the game is pretty good. IMO, a party of 6 is really not necessary. Guess it would make combat a lot easier as well. Not sure why your people can't hit anything - I'm wrecking whatever crosses my path. Maybe you use the wrong weapons, etc? If we'll get a PoE3 some day, I'd really love it to just use this game engine. All of the interactions and environments combined with Obsidians writing should end up pretty cool.

Stasis on Giveaway (no clue when it ends). Just if you pick it up, do not forget to patch it with the Unity Vulnerability patcher!

I started playing BG3 about a week ago. I'm using a lot of mods, though all of them from among those available through the built-in mod manager. The most important mod being the one that gets me a 6-character party. As I had expected, the game is okay but not amazing the way everyone likes to gush over it. It's definitely not worthy of all those 98, 99, 100 review scores it was given, calling into question the credibility of those reviewers. Among the things that I dislike are a horrible inventory system and hotbar system, poory designed UIs across the board, moving and organizing the party as a group being a huge pain in the ass, most containers in the environment being empty (and not getting clearly marked as such even after you check them), and all NPCs can be interracted with even though many dont have anything meaningful to say. Your own dialog options during conversations are often many and yet the range of different options is very limited, meaning many of the options are merely minor variations on saying the same thing. Combat is also, as expected, rather tedious, but I can live with it from having a party of six and using low difficulty settings. But it is rather ridiculous the extent to which characters miss their attacks. I've gone through multiple rounds of combat where every single one of my six characters missed on their attack. But I'll grant this is a huge flaw of DnD and not the game per se (and why I love PoE mechanics so very much more). Where the game does shine is in beautiful environments, and very nice character animations and cutscenes. The story is also good so far. More to come.

Play it before they wreck it with their trash DLC.

made pulled pork, carolina gold bbq sauce and cole slaw. the pork we made in the oven instead o' smoking. turned out nice even so. were a small pork 1/2 shoulder, a bit under 3.5 lbs, and it nevertheless took near eight hours to get to fall-apart doneness. we cooked the meat in the oven 'cause our carob shrub (is more than 30' tall and a bit wider, but am thinking it is technical a shrub 'cause it branches at the base instead o' having a single trunk, but am so not an arborist,) is current in bloom. we do not want to spend anytime outside and within 100 yards o' our carob... shrub, 'least not for another week. am almost never making carolina gold bbq sauce, which is weird 'cause am a fan o' the stuff. we went a bit light on the sweetness and added a tad more heat than is typical... not that we needed to make the sauce particularly hot as we had liberal spiced the pork. almost forgot to add worcestershire sauce... probable 'cause we make carolina gold so infrequent. the coleslaw we prepared is o' the sacrilegious midwestern variety being heavy on mayo, sweetness, vinegar and always is including a bit o' celery seed. our celery seed must be ten years old by now 'cause is maybe two other recipes we near never prepare for which we need celery seed, but in spite o' the age, it tasted fine. after shredding the cabbage and carrot, we salt the vegetable matter and then let it sit for about an hour to dehydrate a bit... and then we ring out much o' the remaining moisture via a tea towel. am always annoyed by wet midwestern coleslaw, so we take effort to prevent such an outcome. *shrug* am not general a fan o' mayo or miracle whip based slaw, but we had a hankering for it and nobody were gonna tell us it were a bad idea. am gonna have pulled pork for a few days. HA! Good Fun!

Fine by me, there's too much fighting in this game as is. I do wish there was an auto-run, however.

lol I actually like that. Too often in like Fallout I would clear out the same place of the same dudes over and over again and it felt like I had no effect on the world. This makes it feel like I'm actually DOING something. Also it can help to point out places I haven't explored yet.

After finishing the Archive quest chain, i can't give the calcaduceus to either Auntie or Ruth, going directly to them just makes them say generic lines. The quest marker leads to an empty room in the entrance of the Archive. I have opened up all lifts including the Spireton one, there was nothing else i could interact with there. The Order NPC at the lift doesn't have anything to say either. I suspect this is because i cleared Spireton of enemies way before accepting the quest, and there was no way to acknowledge it during the negotiations.

Same problem here... Even after last updates, i tried reload go to other planets, change companions and still severing dont appear... It only appears the text of him when you approach the location for first time but nothing after that, not even the icon of npc in the minimap

I don't know if they talked about this already. But I'm at the end of the quest where it tells me to hand over the calcaduceus, but there's no one there to give it to. Does anyone know how to fix it

Because of the imminent release of the StarCraft miniature wargame, I have started playing the original StarCraft. I had a bit of a disagreement with General Edmund Duke. Raynor and I said we need to stop the zerg from killing whole planets. Duke asked "But do you condemn the sons of Korhal?" We didn't. Now we are terrorists. Obviously now the zerg are trying to eat Duke, so we have to save him. We should have just sent him a message: " When the zerg came for Mar Sara, I did nothing because my villa wasn't on Mar Sara. When the zerg came for Chau Sara, I did nothing because my golf course was not on Chau Sara. When the zerg finally came for me, there was noone left to save me."

Did you interact with the nearby intercom to actually summon the troops? In my prior screenshot, it is roughly just right of center.. by the break in the guardrail. There really should be quest markers for activating the lift.

I appreciate it but I had already activated the elevator, pretty sure I sequence broke it by doing that.

Task - HBO, 3 episodes (hubby continued to watch another couple, but I wandered off) Not bad. I thought there would be a little more, y'know, detective-ing and crime-ing, but it's well acted and mostly well written and spends a lot of time developing characters. A lot of family-drama vibes on top of the crime-drama. Definitely worth a shot if that's a genre one likes. If I don't get around to watching more of it, that's more about me and my attention span/lack of daily interest in watching TV etc. Those first few episodes were certainly interesting enough.

I know this can happen when HAGS (Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling) is not enabled in Windows. The setting can be found in "Settings -> System -> Display -> Graphics -> Advanced Graphics Settings"

I preordered it a month ago

I had this issue but my monk froze up as if he were casting a priest spell. Couldn't cancel the action or do anything. I ended up loading the save. It never happened again, though, so I didn't bother reporting it as I didn't know how to trigger it. I didn't even think it had anything to do with Stunning Blow or the monk class. Have you replicated it often? Also I find your jab at Obsidian uncalled for. Games are going to have bugs, and these bugs have arrived alongside waves of free content that go well beyond what many other studios would consider. Frustration is no excuse for disrespect.