LadyCrimson

Tried to watch that War of the Worlds series (3 episodes or so) - the one with Gabriel Byrne, not the BBC one. Most of the reviews had it right, imo, where it feels more like Walking Dead "group drama" style vs. actual War of the Worlds. It's not terrible or anything and on its own merits may not be a bad sci-fi post-apoc show, but it's not what I was wanting/expecting from something called War of the Worlds.

Very true. And also what we comfort ourselves with as we watch the new stuff come out a couple years later and cry into our pillows just a little bit even tho we knew it was coming. ...Cyberpunk has me wanting that 3080ti. Sigh. Must resist until 40xx ... must resist until 40xx....

I became excited and immediately google-searched. Dunno if it's the same thing you're using but only thing I found was something called NGX but it's dev only and you have to sign up or something, so nah. I'll have to be happy with 4k screenies. Anyway, only time I've had issues re: loading image, outside of a bit of wait time, is when the image host network themselves are having problems so the forum kind of freaks out while trying to never-end load images from unresponsive servers and thus may not fully load the whole forum page. But it doesn't seriously hang or crash browser etc. I can still leave the thread. This is with Firefox, I've barely used Chrome or anything else in forever.

Yeah, I've heard of stuff like that and on Cohh's stream I once saw a car just drop out of the sky to land on the side of the road. In other "news", CD Red's now claiming they have no real power over those console refunds etc. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2020/12/16/a-major-warning-about-cyberpunk-2077-refunds-on-ps4-and-xbox-one/

Nope, nothing broke with that one either. At least for me. I'm sure ppl not on fiber 'net are feeling some pain. Are you just resizing/enlarging in an image editor or using some other process?

Are you looking for discussions re: specific Obs games? I'd guess most people don't feel like there's much to still be discussed since they're largely long past release dates and there also haven't been any big announcements recently. Generally speaking I don't think (specific) game forums tend to stay very active past 3-6 months after release, these days, whether it's here, Steam forums, GoG forums, reddit groups, gamefaq's, or whatever. Cyberpunk is being talked about in the general C&C threads because it's a big anticipated current release - and in a week or three it'll mostly be another footnote, probably, until some DLC, maybe.

5 seconds. ... I have no idea what pixel count or file size would cause actual browser issues (vs. simply net speed). Probably depends on what this forum software/script can handle. Also: I like the motorbikes a lot more than cars, so far, simply because for some reason they're a lot easier to steer w/a controller. And they look great with overdone lens flare! Just random.

Taking out the trash. ...I love my bat.

btw, is anyone else having trouble picking up placed world/ground items/loot? It occurs maybe 15% of the time for me - they aren't visually glitching into the ground, you just can't interact no matter how you move around it. Not bothersome when it's just "junk" but annoying when it's a lore recording or anything else more important. Like this guy was practically sitting on one and no matter what angle I crouched or jumping on his head etc. I couldn't click it.

My sidequest/gig list is horrendously long just from running past all these trigger points. The highly disruptive calls and messages are so many that my rebellious nature is going "STOP BOTHERING ME, DO IT YOURSELF" so I've been studiously ignoring them all. Hence my low level. I know, I'm weird. Pffft. After a while I tried not answering the calls, but nope, that doesn't work. You auto-answer after some rings anyway.

Every morning: "I'm going to barrel my way through some main quest because I really want to open up the world..." Result: "Wonder what's down there. Ooo, lootbox bonanza! I wonder how far this road/sewer/path goes. Are those more gangs I can murderdeathkill? I wonder what that giant building is. You-shall-not-pass! (darn) Is that a ship?"

I've seen lots of videos with it doing 50-58ish at 1080 and still have it look decent. Lots of settings don't really need to be even on Medium for that, so a mix of Low and Medium would likely work. Probably depends a bit on CPU too tho. But yeah,,,if you're looking for rock solid 60fps, may not happen.

Took 4 seconds to fully load, browser's fine. Still too small.

LOL. Not interested in that, either.

I've seen people on Very Hard basically one shotting everything when level 25 or so - if they get headshots anyway. So, yeah. They weren't even mega min-maxing, I think. Edit: I've been whacking ppl who drop lvl 18 stuff with my bat and I'm not even lvl 6 yet. I do use a few potions tho. Also, the hacking/breaching game pays out a lot eventually, if you like that stuff. All INT and whatever the other one is and you'll get all three all the time, which pays big. I hate mini-games myself but if you're good at them. Edit: I do like that with the skill xp, it's a little forgiving re: where you spend points vs. your abilities. Myself I'm not interested in buying the kewl cars so I don't see much need for money. What do you use it for outside of buying gear from shops?

Got my first Legendary item, an outer topwear/jacket type. Comes with a couple special stat thingies, but ... looks-wise, I like my cheap, plain, long coat better.

Queen of the Hill! ... or something. Also ... someone's gotta keep that bikini-armor tradition alive.

@Gorgon TLDR: Considering I didn't think I'd like this sort of game/setting at all, I think it's at least engaging enough so that, unlike a lot of games I've tried recently, I keep turning it on almost every day, even if I don't spend a ton of time or doing much forward progress each short session. Make of that what you will. The early exploration aspect catches your interest, and you'll find plenty to do if you want to wander around outside of the main plot. I've heard the main story (if you were to totally rush it) isn't much longer than most big title campaigns are these days, but all that side stuff and exploration and some options is going to extend that time by huge amounts (and multiple playthrus if you like it enough). As someone who typically doesn't care much these days about story/writing depth or cutscene-ing, I'm not a very good judge of those aspects since I hardly pay attention as everyone's jabbering for long minutes (outside of lol'ing at one-liners....). I'm more the is gameplay and other mechanics interesting/fun observer. Game has a sort of Fallout4 dialogue system where the given options are short and then what your chr. actually says doesn't always feel like it matches what you picked, which I don't like but whatever. And those timed dialogue line choices (where the timer is like 5-6 seconds I swear) are annoying... I think gameplay so far is nothing too special, especially gunplay (non-gun combat is more fun imo). Outside of main plot missions, at least early on, a lot of time I feel like I'm simply roaming around whacking random-ish gang bangers for their loot and street cred points (hey, they keep running into my baseball bat, what can I do). Which is funny but...I'm also starting to feel like the crafting and gear upgrade system is very basic and not terribly interesting. There's different "color" loot but honestly if you just keep dismantling stuff and upgrade fave outfits/early guns periodically you'd probably do fine, at least on Normal. Not sure about the skill/perk system, some things seem interesting/useful, many things are in that "your health/stamina/whatever regens 10% faster!" for a point spent, category. I don't think there's any enemy level scaling either so if you grind a lot you might find general combat becoming way too easy at some point, where maybe only story and certain quest bosses might seem challenging (again, on Normal, haven't checked out higher differences, yet).

Hubby's sister's husband had a massive stroke apparently (he had a heart attack over a decade ago, as well). He's back home but needs a lot of care and she's trying to figure out how they'll live on mostly disability - we're not sure if it's semi-temporary or if he'll never be able to go back to work again etc. They're both in early 60's. So ... yeah. Another reminder of all our encroaching mortality and to always appreciate what you have when you have it. I wish we all still lived nearby, like way back. We'll have to figure out a time to go visit.

They announced they would refund console users if they don't want to wait for patches/updates, along with an apology for not showing last-gen console gameplay so ppl knew what to expect and for not making it perform better in the 1st place. I suppose that's nice of them but I'm still kind of

I am V, The Immortal. ...thanks, hex editing. Now I can rush the main plot and just take goofy pictures whenever.

Anyone care to tell me approx. "how long" it takes before the whole city opens up (outside of typical blocked off dungeons/quest areas ofc), main story wise? eg, if you only do the main questline. Sidenote: this doesn't really feel like a game where running around on foot, outside of a few obvious places, is the best thing to do, immersion wise. You start noticing way too many weird AI, graphic, and "busy city" background scripting things that completely break immersion. Like the traffic headlights that appear and stop then disappear at the same spot on the freeway (they never get closer) or cars stopping/piling up in the middle of the freeway because they're obviously not scripted to go any farther but can't disappear while you're staring at them. One time I walked down a street, saw a filler NPC walking by, turned a corner and the exact same filler NPC was walking towards me again. The overall illusion of a busy city is good as long as you aren't paying close attention, but the AI/pathing/scripting of background is quite terrible.

Nicolas Cage seems to be making a ton of bad movies again. Not that he ever stopped, but it's breakneck speed lately is all I'm saying. I'm beginning to wonder if it's not just quick-cash but maybe he's simply an obsessive workaholic? I was usually willing to watch most of his bad films but the last two I tried were so awful (outside of Cage himself) I had to turn them off after 30 minutes.

Amazon-rented "Love and Monsters." Kind of a tongue in cheek young adult/family-film survival in a post-apoc world of mutated animal dangers where humans are largely living in bunkers. Takes a little while to get going but after the 25-30 minute mark and the main character ventures outside, it's quite cute and entertaining, better than I expected really. The scenes with Michael Rooker were especially fun. Also, super-cute best dog chr.

I'm finding the early (and I do mean early) part of the game a bit too much of information overload. I know, it's sad, I'm going senile or something - it's a little more than I want to "think" about it most of the time these days. Maybe I'll get an invulnerable hex edit and just punch my way around. Does anyone know what those QT-like dialogue bit moments are for? I've been assuming depending on ones you choose some outcomes, npc attitudes would be different? Sometimes I miss the timing and just end up with default silence. Makes me want to reload all the time to try each one. I find this game to be almost as bad as Death Stranding - it makes so many auto-saves (every 10 minutes?) and I'm constantly deleting a dozen or two at a time. I much prefer making my own saves.